Main entry:

Cerdá, Ildefonso, 1815-1876, author.

Title & Author:

General theory of urbanization, 1867 / Ildefons Cerdà ; [edited by] Vicente Guallart ; translations, Angela Kay Bunning, with the collaboration of Anne Ludlow, Graham Thomson.

Publication:

Barcelona : IAAC - Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia ; New York : Actar Publishers, [2018]
©2018

Description:

735 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
"In partnership with: Diputació de Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya, Incasol, CCCB, with the collaboration: Bloomberg Philanthropies" -- Back cover.
"First translation into English on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the General Theory of Urbanization by Ildefons Cerdà, an essential work on urban development" -- Publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Mercè Conesa, President of the Diutació de Barcelona -- Cerdà: universal and contemporary / Damià Calvet, Director of the Institut Català del Sòl (Catalan Land Institute) -- Urbanization: the science of making cities / Vicente Guallart, architect -- General Theory of Urbanization.
In English, translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

In 1867 Ildefons Cerdà published his "Teoria general de la urbanització." In this text, the "science of building cities", understood as a phenomenon, became a new discipline with a broad economic, social and cultural impact on the life of the people of the city. Coinciding with 150 years since its publication, its first translation into English is being presented along with the publishing online urbanization.org with the statistics transformed into interactive graphics and open data, with the aim of expanding the knowledge of Cerdà's work and encouraging debate on the process of "urbanization" in the future.

ISBN:

9781945150906 hardcover
1945150904 hardcover

Subject:

City planning Philosophy.
Urbanization Philosophy.
Urbanization Spain Barcelona.
Urbanisation Philosophie.
Urbanisation Espagne Barcelone.

Added entries:

Guallart, Vicente, editor.
Bunning, Angela Kay, translator.
Ludlow, Anne, translator.
Thomson, Graham (Translator), translator.
Cerdá, Ildefonso, 1815-1876. Teoría general de la urbanización. English.
Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya, publisher, editor.
Barcelona (Spain : Province). Diputació.
Institut Català del Sòl (Spain)
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302074
Call No.: BIB 248292
Status: Available