Spanish civil engineer, Ildefonso Cerda, invented the term 'urbanization' in 1860-61. His theory was the first in modern times to focus methodically on the city as a construction, its evolution and the workings and interaction of its constituent parts. This book is split into 5 sections: The Technical, Administrative, Legal, Economic and Political Bases of Urbanization. It is the first time Cerda's work has been published in English.
First translation into English on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the General Theory of Urbanization 1867 by Ildefons Cerdà, an essential work on urban development. In 1867 Ildefons Cerdà published his “Teoria general de la urbanitzación”. In this text, the “science of building cities”, understood as a phenomenon, became a new discipline with a broad economic, social and cultural impact on the life of the people of the city. Coinciding with 150 years since its publication, its first translation into English is being presented along with the publishing online at urbanization.org with the statistics transformed into interactive graphics and open data, with the aim of expanding the knowledge of Cerdà’s work and encouraging debate on the process of “urbanization” in the future. Co-published with the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in collaboration with the Diputació de Barcelona, the Generalitat de Catalunya through Incasòl. Bloomberg Philanthropies contributed as a collaborator for the international di usion of the project.
This book is a tribute to the first modern urban planner and his product: the Eixample, which is today the thriving and undisputed center of the Barcelona metropolitan area. The city of Barcelona as constructed over the last 150 years on the strength of Ildefons Cerdà's 1859 'Project for the Reform and Expansion' bears living witness to the modernity of a way of thinking and making the city. An appreciaton of the values of the Eixample that have taken shape in the last century and a half affords illuminating insights into what it means to plan, design and build a city. The chapter structure is devoted to an orderly analysis in the first instance of the elements that articulate the construction of the Eixample -- the residential fabric, the grid, the street, the chamfered corner and the sewers -- and then of the city blocks and the various configurations associated with housing, industry, amenities and open spaces. The book intentionally focuses on the Eixample as a whole -- what we know as the Cerdà Eixample -- instead of confining itself to the more central Eixample traditionally associated with Modernista architecture.
El presente libro, "Genealoga de la familia MONTEALEGRE" es el Primer Tomo de tres, expone en sus pginas el origen del apellido, el lugar que dio origen al mismo, sus antepasados en Espaa, Francia, Inglaterra, Italia, Alemania y Kiev. Entre esos antepasados, entre los ms importantes, podemos mencionar al rey David, al Profeta Mahoma, a los Duques de Anjou y Aquitania, a los Plantegenet que son el origen de casi todas las monarquas europeas. Expone los antepasados del rey don Fernando III "el Santo" y su esposa Elizabeth Hohenstaufen, y sus descendientes, que a travs de sus hijos don Alfonso X "el Sabio" y el Infante don Manuel, llegaron hasta Amrica. De los descendientes del rey David, por Theodoric Makhir I, principe de de Narbona y marqus de Tolouse, cuyos descendientes contrajeron nupcias con los descendientes de Carlomagno, el linaje se extiende hasta Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Guatemala. La familia cuenta entre sus antepasados importantes conquistadores, tal como Juan Vzquez de Coronado y Anaya, que dej descendencia en Costa Rica y Nicaragua. Al final del libro se ofrece una extensa iconografa de la familia, de todas sus ramas: Montealegre, Sacasa, Solrzano, Somoza, Rivera y otros miembros que pasaron a formar parte de la familia. Finalmente, ofrece una valiosa bibliografa de donde los lectores podrn ampliar sus conocimientos sobre esta familia importante en el desarrollo social, poltico, cultural y econmico en Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Guatemala.
This multi-disciplinary study explores the explosion of cultural, social, linguistic, and architectural development in urban and rural settlements on and surrounding the Iberian peninsula during the 20th century.
