Revealed: Ildefons Cerdà’s muse

Barcelona’s Eixample district slots humans into a grid of stacked cuboids; it often smells of poo. It is no surprise, then, to discover that its planner, Ildefons Cerdà, was born on a large pig farm. (It’s just outside Centelles which, like the rest of the region, continues to ignore European law by spraying on slurry…

Revealed: Ildefons Cerdà's muse

Barcelona’s Eixample district slots humans into a grid of stacked cuboids; it often smells of poo. It is no surprise, then, to discover that its planner, Ildefons Cerdà, was born on a large pig farm. (It’s just outside Centelles which, like the rest of the region, continues to ignore European law by spraying on slurry…