Ildefons Cerdà

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".

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Who was born first?

• Ildefons Cerdà and Johann Jakob Bachofen were born the same year
• Ildefons Cerdà and George Boole were born the same year
• Ildefons Cerdà and Charles Bernard Renouvier were born the same year
• Ildefons Cerdà and Ľudovít Štúr were born the same year
• Ildefons Cerdà and Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina were born the same year

Timeline

1. Charles Bernard RenouvierJanuary 1, 1815 – September 1, 1903
2. Ferdinando Petruccelli della GattinaAugust 28, 1815 – March 29, 1890
3. George BooleNovember 2, 1815 – December 8, 1864
4. Ildefons Cerdà (this page)December 23, 1815 – August 23, 1876
5. Johann Jakob BachofenDecember 22, 1815 – November 25, 1887
6. Ľudovít ŠtúrOctober 28, 1815 – January 12, 1856

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