Ildefons Cerdà
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 147 years ago |
| Date of birth | December 23,1815 |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Born | Centelles |
| Spain | |
| Date of died | August 21,1876 |
| Died | Las Caldas De Besaya |
| Spain | |
| Children | Clotilde Cerdá |
| Job | Architect |
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| Civil engineer | |
| Urban planner | |
| Education | UPM: Higher Technical School of Civil Engineers |
| Books | General Theory of Urbanization, 1867 |
| General Theory of Urbanization 1867 | |
| Cerdá: The Five Bases of the General Theory of Urbanization | |
| Place of burial | Montjuïc Cemetery, Barcelona, Spain |
| Spouse | Clotilde Bosch i Carbonell |
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| ID | 1227426 |
Ildefons Cerdà Life story
Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer was a Spanish urban planner and 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".
