Urban structure, scale and grain, Joe Holyoak

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)