Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design Hardcover – March 15, 2019

I recently bought this book, and it is intense! The graphics and the incredibly comprehensive and exhaustive analysis of City grid types & precedents is amazing! I am masterplanning a large 100 acre portion of brownfield into a completely new urban place. I believe this book will be very helpful on informing me of block and street grid possibilities.

I love reference books. The more information, and the denser the information, the better. That is what Urban Grids offers. It impressed the hell out of me. This book contains much original research, conclusions, and data that I haven't find anywhere else. Of the 5 books on city design that I bought recently, this one is by far the biggest and deepest; though by construction it only covers cities built on grids, or the gridded parts of cities. Many cities have older portions that were grown more "organically", and if you want a better understanding of the history of all cities, including those, look at Spiro Kostof's The City Shaped. But if you want the bible of modern city layout and structure, get Urban Grids.

spectacular!! Busquets and his team made a beautiful book. Not a technical book at all but very sharp, therefore a piece of art.

This is a truly all encompassing and brilliant book on the enigmatic subject of urban design. It is a must have volume for every student, academic, and professional in the field.

Excellent graphics highly disciplined. Amazing amount of info. Reminds me of books done back in Cornell Grad school in the 80’s

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Reading this book is a lot like eating a crawfish.There's some bits of fantastic meat in there, but it's all encased in hard, spiky, stubborn shell that leaves your fingers blistered and cut by the meal's end.The pretty drawings are all far too small and far too crammed to be legible, and every written sentence is a chore to work through, riddled with unusual diction and vague statements followed by zero citations. While a worthy academic subject, urban planning as a subject matter is not particle physics. It can be written about succinctly, clearly, and informatively for anyone to read, including even laymen. It's such a disappointment as the premise of the book and the table of contents gets my heart racing with excitment. I dearly wish I could retrieve the thoughts of the author without wrestling his overly verbose language.I got a massive headache trying to slog through the written portions of this book. Maybe that's why the cover is bright red. Like a boiled crawfish.