The Evolution of Urban Form

Typology for Planners and Architects
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-33007-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designers, and students concerned with how cities take shape. This book provides a fundamental understanding of how physical environments are created, changed, and transformed through ordinary processes over ti

Zielgruppe

Professional and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Case Scheer, Brenda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Crisis in the Urban Landscape 2. The Origins and Theory of Type 3. Typological Transformation 4. Typology and Urban Transformation 5. Legitimacy and Control 6. Typology and the Disordered City 7. Type in Design and Practice 8. Transformation and Imagination

Über Autor(innen)

Brenda Case Scheer, AICP is the Dean and Professor of Architecture and City Metropolitan for the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Utah.