Colonial and Counter-Colonial Design Methodologies: The Instrumentalization of Grids in the Public Interest

Abstract

The paper concludes with an appraisal of the advance of geo-spatial grid mapping and its countervalent potential for design professionals.Among all the arts -those children of pleasure and necessity in which man has participated to help him bear the trials of life and pass on his memory to future generations -one cannot deny that architecture must hold a most eminent place. Even considered only from the point of usefulness, it surpasses all the other arts. It ensures to the salubrity of cities, guards the health of men, protects their properties, and works only for the safety, repose and orderliness of civic life.-Quatremère de Quincy (1832) In review of