• The Cerdà Plan was a plan to reform and expand the city of Barcelona created in 1860 that followed the criteria of the Hippodamus plan, with a grid structure...
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    enshrinement of a revisionist version of how Cerdà secured official approval of his plan. Cerdà actually drew up his plan under the commission of the then competent...
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    Barcelona, first designed by Ildefons Cerdà to serve as the city centre in his original urban plan (Pla Cerdà), but nowadays relegated to quite a secondary...
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    Ildefons Cerdà, author of a topographic plan of the Barcelona plan and a demographic and urbanistic study of the city (1855). The Cerdà Plan (Plan de los...
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    Santiago Lima Barquisimeto Barcelona (see Eixample and Pla Cerdà [ca]) Madrid (see Plan Castro [es]) Valencia (see Eixample, Valencia) Donostia Glasgow...
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    Plaça d'Ildefons Cerdà (often known simply as Plaça Cerdà) is a square in Barcelona, part of La Bordeta, in the Sants-Montjuïc district, very close to...
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    Pedro Abelino Aguirre Cerda (Latin American Spanish: [ˈpeðɾo aˈɣire ˈseɾða]; February 6, 1879 – November 25, 1941) was a Chilean political figure, educator...
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    speed. Casa Josep Cerdà (19th century) by Antoni Valls Galí - The first four buildings that followed Ildefons Cerdà's now famous urban plan were on the corner...
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    Eixample (category Urban planning in Spain)
    the mixed composition dreamed of by Cerdà. The important needs of the inhabitants were incorporated into his plan, which called for markets, schools,...
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    Ensanche (category Urban planning in Spain)
    extensions in Spain began simultaneously in 1860 with the plans for Barcelona by Ildefons Cerdà and Madrid by Carlos María de Castro, influenced by Haussmann's...
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  • its modern requirements. It was drawn up by the Catalan engineer Ildefons Cerdà to fill the space beyond the city walls after they were demolished from...
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    Joseph, to the design of the architect Francisco de Paula del Villar, whose plan was for a Gothic revival church of a standard form. The apse crypt was completed...
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    Catalan language name of the street, according to the city layout plan of 1859 by Ildefons Cerdà. The street was officially opened October 8, 1894. The street...
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    Luis Francisco de la Cerda y Aragón, 9th Duke of Medinaceli (2 August 1660, in El Puerto de Santa María – 26 January 1711, in Pamplona), 9th Duke of Medinaceli...
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    some technical aspects of Ildefons Cerdà's early studies and plans for the extension of Barcelona. But unlike Cerdà who sought to avoid social segregation...
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    Martí. Its creation was passed in 1863, and was part of Ildefons Cerdà's urban plan, appearing as L Street in 1867, even though that name was never approved...
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    project by Ildefons Cerdà and another by Josep Amargós in 1894 proposed to convert the mountain into a residential area. A similar later plan was Léon Jaussely's...
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    superimposed in the Eixample District's famous Ildefons Cerdà-designed late 19th century grid plan. Each superilla comprises nine city blocks, or illes,...
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    population. To solve the issue, a civil engineer named Ildefons Cerdà proposed a plan for a new district known as the Eixample. The citizens of Barcelona...
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  • avenues of Paris 1859 Ildefons Cerdà – planner of the Eixample district of Barcelona 1862 James Hobrecht – Hobrecht-Plan for Berlin c. 1880 Solon Spencer...
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    streets in Eixample Modernisme, Noucentisme, Art Nouveau. Ildefons Cerdà and his Pla Cerdà, influenced by utopian socialism History of Barcelona History of...
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    Court. King, however, believes that the match turned around because King planned for and totally prepared for Wimbledon that year and told herself when...
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    commissioned Ildefons Cerdà, a Catalan urban planner, to design the new district. However, the local government, rejected Cerdà's plan in a politically-motivated...
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    Urbanism (category Urban planning)
    in the late nineteenth century with the Spanish civil engineer Ildefons Cerdà, whose intent was to create an autonomous activity focused on the spatial...
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    Barcelona. Francesc Xavier Hernández has propugned the possibility of Ildefonso Cerdà as a designer of a new city as the capital of a new country, based on the...
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    Ildefons Cerdà included it as an essential part of his draft of the new "Projecte de reforma i eixample de Barcelona" (nowadays simply known as "Pla Cerdà")...
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    the first planning carried out by Léon Jaussely in his plan of connections and by Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí, author of an ambitious plan of concentric...
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  • Burgess (1886-1966) Peter Calthorpe (1949) Manuel Castells (1942) Ildefons Cerdà (1815-1876) Gordon Cullen (1914-1994) Mike Davis (1946-2022) Constantinos...
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    Compostellani Fraser 2000. Crónica Latina, Anales Toledanos Cerda 2012. José Manuel Cerda, The marriage of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet:...
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    Passeig de Gràcia train station Bus Ildefons Cerdà Modernisme Noucentisme Street names in Barcelona Urban planning of Barcelona List of streets in Eixample...
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