# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ildefons-cerda
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:17:11.856Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ildefons-cerda"
name: "Ildefons Cerdà"
slug: "ildefons-cerda"
description: "Ildefons Cerdà Sunyer was a Spanish urban planner and civil engineer who designed the 19th-century \"extension\" of Barcelona called the Eixample. Because of his extensive theoretical and practical work, he is considered the founder of modern town planning as a discipline, having coined the word \"urbanization\"."
tagline: "Urban planner (1815-1876), noted for the extension plan of Barcelona"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ildefons_Cerd%C3%A1_(1878).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ES"
category:
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  slug: "architects"
profileType:
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  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1815-12-23"
deathDate: "1876-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 225
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump