Early modern urbanism and the grid
Subtitle: town planning in the Low Countries in international context : exchanges in theory and practice, 1550-1800
By: edited by  Piet Lombaerde & Charles van den Heuvel
Series: Architectura Moderna -- v. 10; Architectura moderna -- 10.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9782503540733
Subjects: Grids (Crisscross patterns); Congresses; Modern Architecture; City planning; Mathematical models; History
Description: From the late sixteenth century until around 1800, new ideas and practices of urban planning and the implementation of public buildings, water works and fortifications from the Low Countries were disseminated across Europe and America. Engineers, mathematicians and other scientists in the Low Countries applied methods of design and land surveying that were gradually assimilated and often modified following exchanges within local practice. In some cases, models were projected onto the existing situation. This phenomenon of disseminating and exchanging theoretical models and practical methods between the Low Countries, Europe and its colonies during this period developed into a new Early Modern Urbanism movement within the Western world.
Notes: Proceedings of a conference held May 8, 2009 in Antwerp.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-236) and index.

Text in English with some German.