Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design is the result of a
five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets
and Dingliang Yang at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The
research that is the foundation for this publication emphasizes the
value of open forms for city design, a publication that specifically
insists that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel
urban transformation flexibly and productively. Urban Grids analyzes
cities and urban projects that utilize the grid as the main structural
device for allowing rational development, and goes further to propose
speculative design projects capable of suggesting new urban paradigms
drawn from the grid as a design tool.