Buch, Englisch, Band 135, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 207 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 708 g
Reihe: Grundlagen/Basics
Propositions for the Architecture of the City
Buch, Englisch, Band 135, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 207 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 708 g
Reihe: Grundlagen/Basics
ISBN: 978-3-86922-701-6
Verlag: DOM Publishers
This book is a protest against the merciless globalisation of the city and its dissolution into faceless, inhospitable peripheries. At the same time, it puts forward alternative strategies of urban design to counteract such globalisation and dissolution. It formulates a different approach to urbanism, one which views the city not as a carnivalesque display of vanities but as a sophisticated spatial construction that lays down the conditions for a productive, sociable, serene, and happy life.