My research focuses on the theoretical writings of Catalan engineer Ildefons Cerdà, in particular his Teoría General de la Urbanización (1867), and their application to Catalan narrative texts from ...

Then came Ildefons Cerdà, a civil engineer, with an interesting idea (the Eixample, as he called it). He proposed a new city district beyond the walls, but not just any city district. His idea ...