Design of Cities
Author: Edmund N. Bacon
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN: UOM:39015010976556
Category: Architecture
Page: 336
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Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Surveys the elements and evolution of design in cities from Athens to Brasilia, emphasizing the relationship between man and his environment
Language: un
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict. Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy. Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through
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Pages: 340
Pages: 340
Having perceived a widespread failure of most community-scale plans, Eduardo Lozano has created a large and humane vision for community design, geared toward urban planners and designers, as well as those concerned with the communities of the future. Lozano strives to unify theory and practice, seeing that design at community
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Pages: 190
Pages: 190
Attoe and Logan propose a specifically American theory of urban design. Arguing that theories of urban design, especially theories about the remaking of cities, have been largely European in origin and thus of questionable value in American contexts, the authors see the characteristic features of American cities--the grid, loft buildings,
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Pages: 243
Pages: 243
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