Early Modern Urbanism and the Grid: Town Planning in the Low Countries in International Context. Exchanges in Theory and Practice 1550-1800

From the late sixteenth century until around 1800, new ideas and practices of urban planningand the implementation of public buildings, water works and fortifications from the Low Countrieswere disseminated across Europe and America. Engineers, mathematicians and other scientistsin the Low Countries applied methods of design and land surveying that were gradually assimilated and often modified following exchanges within local practice. In some cases, models were projected onto the existing situa…