Early Modern Urbanism and the Grid - Piet Lombaerde
Town Planning in the Low Countries in International Context. Exchanges
KORTE INHOUD
From the late sixteenth century until around 1800, new ideas and practices of urban planningand the implementation of public buildings, water works and fortifications from the Low Countrieswere disseminated across Europe and America. Engineers, mathematicians and other scientistsin 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. Grid-like plans figured prominently in these processes of dissemination and exchange. In the Low Countries, grid-like structures allowed a comprehensive approach to a multitude of complex problems in urban planning (for example, the connection of canals, streets and fortifications...
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2011Uitgever: Brepols Publishers252 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503540732ISBN-13: 9782503540733Koop dit boek tweedehands
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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. T...
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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. ...
