Ildefons Cerdà
✶December 23, 1815
†August 23, 1876
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✶December 23, 1815
†August 23, 1876
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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".
Urban planner (1815-1876), noted for the extension plan of Barcelona
Biography from the article Ildefons Cerdà on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.