A NEW THEORY OF URBAN DESIGN
The venerable cities of the past, such as Venice or Amsterdam, convey a feeling of wholeness, an organic unity that surfaces in every detail, large and small, in restaurants, shops, public gardens, even in balconies and ornaments. But this sense of wholeness is lacking in modern urban design, with a...
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| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
1987
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Add Tag | Summary: | The venerable cities of the past, such as Venice or Amsterdam, convey a feeling of wholeness, an organic unity that surfaces in every detail, large and small, in restaurants, shops, public gardens, even in balconies and ornaments. But this sense of wholeness is lacking in modern urban design, with architects absorbed in problems of individual structures, and city planners preoccupied with local ordinances, it is almost impossible to achieve. |
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| Physical Description: | 251 pages illustrations 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0195037537 |
Urban design method and techniques