The Grid Book
"Here is a natural storyteller, with scholarly depth, apparently motivated by delight. Where another information historian might have breezily justified your cultural comfort with the net, or else made a jargon-laden assault against it, Hannah Higgins has found the right pitch. Whatever grids you are on, this brightly edited book might help you know them better or see them differently."--Malcolm McCullough, author of Abstracting Craft"Hannah Higgins' new book on grids is a confident synthesis of art, architecture, geography, geometry, urbanism, and social history. Its elegant prose and easy erudition recall the work of Lewis Mumford; its intellectual energy and subtle humor, the writing of Roland Barthes." -- Stephen F. Eisenman, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University(Stephen Eisenman)"Hannah Higgins's new book on grids is a confident synthesis of art, architecture, geography, geometry, urbanism, and social history. Its elegant prose and easy erudition recall the work of Lewis Mumford; its intellectual energy and subtle humor, the writing of Roland Barthes."Stephen F. Eisenman, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University"[I]t is...an informative and sometimes provocative meditation on the place of geometry in human life." Bryan Hayes American Scientist