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The grid as generator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Leslie Martin
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One of the sad oddities of academic life is that great and original contributions get cursorily noticed at the time of their appearance, and are then ignored. Leslie Martin's ‘The Grid as Generator’ is one such case. Published in the book he co-authored with Lionel March in 1972, this opening essay – and indeed the entire book – represented an extraordinary breakthrough in urban research. Yet neither has been properly recognized.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 2000 , pp. 309 - 322
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