Foundations of urban design /
Smets, Marcel
Foundations of urban design / Marcel Smets - New York : Actar D, 2023 - 678 pages.
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Ribbon-Cluster -- Ladder-Star -- Network -Polynuclear Field -- Fabric-Citadel -- Fortified Castle -Palace -- Tower-Belfry -- Monument -Icon -- Island-Archipelago -- Oasis-Camp -- Market Square-Parade Ground -- Cape-Lighthouse -- Slope -Step -- Threshold-Transition -- Street-Road -- Path-Avenue -- Brook-Ditch.
The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. Still, we are warned, 'the presented antagonisms are not a priori in opposition, but rather complementary.
9781638400912
ARCHITECTURE -- GENERAL
ARCHITECTURE -- LANDSCAPE
Foundations of urban design / Marcel Smets - New York : Actar D, 2023 - 678 pages.
3 user
Ribbon-Cluster -- Ladder-Star -- Network -Polynuclear Field -- Fabric-Citadel -- Fortified Castle -Palace -- Tower-Belfry -- Monument -Icon -- Island-Archipelago -- Oasis-Camp -- Market Square-Parade Ground -- Cape-Lighthouse -- Slope -Step -- Threshold-Transition -- Street-Road -- Path-Avenue -- Brook-Ditch.
The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. Still, we are warned, 'the presented antagonisms are not a priori in opposition, but rather complementary.
9781638400912
ARCHITECTURE -- GENERAL
ARCHITECTURE -- LANDSCAPE