The Grid is Chicago’s circulatory system: the residential and commercial streets, secondary arterials, grand boulevards, and teeming expressways, the gangways and alleys. It is the system of street ...
L'Eixample, the neighborhood Ildefons Cerdà created in Barcelona. He saw each block as a close-knit community. Most of us don’t think a whole lot about city blocks. They’re just there, part of the ...