Ildefons Cerdà
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer, Ildefonso Cerdá Suñer, Ildefonso Cerdá, Ildefonso Cerdá y Suñer, Ildefonso Cerdà, Ildefons Cerda, Ildefons Cerda i Sunyer, Ildefonso Cerda
Urban planner (1815-1876), noted for the extension plan of Barcelona
Key facts
- Born
- 23 December 1815, Centelles, Catalonia, Spain
- Died
- 21 August 1876 (1876-08-21) (aged 60), Las Caldas de Besaya, Los Corrales de Buelna, Cantabria, Spain
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Known for
- Designed expansion of Barcelona known as the "Eixample"
- Fields
- Urban planner, civil engineer, politician
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Centelles
- Occupation
- civil engineer
- Political party
- Democratic Federal Republican Party
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- Ildefons Cerdá (1878).jpg
- Work location
- Madrid
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- Commons category
- Ildefons Cerdà
- place of burial
- Montjuïc Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1815-12-23
- date of death
- 1876-08-23
- name in native language
- Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer
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Encyclopedic overview
Ildefons Cerdà Sunyer ( Catalan pronunciation: [ildəˈfons səɾˈða i suˈɲe]; Spanish: Ildefonso Cerdá Suñer; 23 December 1815, Centelles (Catalonia) – 21 August 1876, Caldas de Besaya (Cantabria)) 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".
Biography
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