Las medidas de los trazados ortogonales

Abstract

Many of the cities we know have their origin or subsequent extension project based on a regular layout. This is one of the most common and fortunately used urban growth patterns and the diversity of solutions that has given rise enriches the town planning history treatises. Plots, building typologies, streets, avenues, and blocks of different sizes, are combined in rich and diverse proposals, where the only common feature seems to be the use of a rectangular layout, with the consequent rationality, serialization, extension and transformation capacity. In this paper we analyse essentially the shape and measures of these projects (street size, width and depth of the block, its surface and the total extension), in order to verify if there are certain constants among these dimensions, or significant relationships between them, perhaps more appropriate measures, in order to built a more functional, cheaper or beautiful city.