Urban forms : the death and life of the urban block
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Urban forms : the death and life of the urban block / Philippe Panerai, Jean Castex, Jean Charles Depaule ; English edition and additional material by Ivor Samuels. - London : Architectural Press, cop. 2004. - XI, 222 p. : il. ; 24 cm
ISBN - 978-0-7506-5607-8
Assunto - Planeamento urbano; Morfologia urbana; Urbanismo
Sinopse
Urban Forms: The Death and Life of the Urban Block is concerned with the fundamental grammar of our cities which is the key to successful urban environments.
This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town planning, is the essential framework for everyday life. Only by investigating the urban tissue will it be possible to understand the complex relationships between plot and built form, between streets and buildings and between these forms and design practices.
The chosen trail of the first French edition - Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt - is one of continuously evolving modernity. It outlines a history, which, in one century (1860 - 1960), completely changed the aspect of our towns and cities and transformed ou way of life. The shock has been such that we are still looking for answers, still attempting to find urban forms that can accommodate present day ways of life and at the same time maintain the qualities of the traditional town.
This English edition brings the story forward to the present day in Britain and the United States where it considers the impact of the New Urbanism which has sought to re-establish former relationships whithin the urban tissue. In a sense, this postscript closes the circle that the French book opened.
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