Urban structure, scale and grain
Joe Holyoak
The urban fabric, composed of 1. infrastructure, 2. plots and 3. building types
Urban grain composed of street blocks of different size and configuration
The 1859 Barcelona expansion (the Ensanche), composed of 120m square blocks
Barcelona; a view in the Ensanche
The old city of Barcelona; organic mediaeval growth produces fine-grained irregular blocks
Barcelona; a view in the old city
Brindleyplace, Birmingham; a permeable loose grid of small blocks, which are mostly each composed of one building
The analytical technique of tissue transfer; Brindleyplace as a piece of Amsterdam
The analytical technique of tissue transfer; Brindleyplace as a piece of Venice
Legible structure; a canal spine (Jordaan, Amsterdam)
Legible structure; a grid of streets (the Colmore Estate, Birmingham, 1778)
Legible structure; the neighbourhood square (Placa del Sol, Gracia, Barcelona)
