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Ildefons Cerdà

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Also known as Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer, Ildefonso Cerdá Suñer, Ildefonso Cerdá, Ildefonso Cerdá y Suñer, Ildefonso Cerdà, Ildefons Cerda, Ildefons Cerda i Sunyer, Ildefonso Cerda

Urban planner (1815-1876), noted for the extension plan of Barcelona

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Born
23 December 1815, Centelles, Catalonia, Spain
Died
21 August 1876 (1876-08-21) (aged 60), Las Caldas de Besaya, Los Corrales de Buelna, Cantabria, Spain
Citizenship
Spain
Known for
Designed expansion of Barcelona known as the "Eixample"
Fields
Urban planner, civil engineer, politician

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date of birth
1815-12-23
date of death
1876-08-23
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Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer
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Ildefons Cerdà Sunyer ( Catalan pronunciation: [ildəˈfons səɾˈða i suˈɲe]; Spanish: Ildefonso Cerdá Suñer; 23 December 1815, Centelles (Catalonia) – 21 August 1876, Caldas de Besaya (Cantabria)) 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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