Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design is the result of an
eight-year research project undertaken at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design. The book emphasizes the value of the regular
city as an open form for city design, and specifically insists that the
grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation
flexibly and productively. Research into existing cities and projects is
revealing new emerging conditions for the urban grid, presented here as
possible paradigms for the city of the future. The work is organized
into six parts: 1. The Atlas of Grid Cities; 2. Grid Projects across
History; 3. The Twentieth-Century Dilemma; 4. The Emergence of New Urban
Grids; 5. Projective Design Tools; 6. The Good Grid City as Open Form.