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Chicago: Two Grids Between Lake and River (Redesigning Gridded Cities)

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Redesigning Gridded Cities focuses with extreme detail on four paradigmatic gridded cities, Manhattan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Hangzhou by analyzing these cities and proposing their own interventions that implicate the grid in productive ways. They emphasize the value of open forms for city design, and specifically insist that the grid has the unique capacity to soak up and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. In both historical and projective, this series of books explore the opportunity of the grid as a design tool to produce a multitude of urban processes and forms.

This publication about the city of Chicago is the product of a research project on the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to reinterpret the theme of the regular― gridded―city and to test its potential to lend a hand in designing the up to date city. There were two main aims for this research. The first pedagogical aim used to be to identify the morphological attributes of the gridded city and to remember the current value of this tool that has been built in essentially the most varied cultures. The second one, speculative, aim used to be to explore broadly urban design principles that may address issue particular to the 21st century city.

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