Ildefons Cerdà

Urban planner (1815-1876), noted for the extension plan of Barcelona · Spain · Architects · Died at 60

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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".

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Cerdà's gravestone, modelled on his plan for Eixample in Barcelona

Original plan of the extension of Barcelona (1859)

the plan for new barcelona

a plan for street

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Spouse: Clotilde Bosch i Carbonell

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