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The Syntax of City Space: American Urban Grids book cover

1st Edition

The Syntax of City Space American Urban Grids

By Mark David Major Copyright 2018
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge
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Many people see American cities as a radical departure in the history of town planning because of their planned nature based on the geometrical division of the land. However, other cities of the world also began as planned towns with geometric layouts so American cities are not unique. Why did the regular grid come to so pervasively characterize American urbanism? Are American cities really so... Read more

PART I 
FORMAL COMPOSITION 
1 The Regular Grid as Historical Object
2 The Regular Grid as Historical Subject 
3 The Essential Right Angle 
4 The Regular Grid in America 

PART II 
FORM AND SPACE 
5 The Spatial Logic of American Cities 
6 The Grid as Generator 

PART III 
SPATIAL CONFIGURATION 
7 Order and Structure in the Regular Grid 
8 Complexity and Pattern in the City 
9 Learning from the Grid 


Conclusion The Tapestry Being Woven 
Acknowledgments  
Bibliography  
Illustration Credits  
Index  
About the Author  

Biography

Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-A, is a Professor of Urban Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He is a graduate of Clemson University, University College London, and the University of London.

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