1st Edition
Urban Forms
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Foreword. Introduction. Chapter 1: The Paris of Haussmann 1853-1882; Chapter 2: London: the garden cities 1905-1925; Chapter 3: The expansions of Amsterdam 1913-1934; Chapter 4: The new Frankfurt and Ernst May 1925-1930; Chapter 5: Le Corbusier and The Cité Radieuse; Chapter 6: The metamorphosis of the plot and urban design; Chapter 7: The development and transmission of architectural models; Chapter 8: Building the city; 1975-1995; Chapter 9 :An Anglo-American Postscript. References. Index.
Biography
Philippe Panerai, Jean Castex, Jean-Charles Depaule, Ivor Samuels, Olga Vitale Samuels
“required reading for every student who intends to go anywhere near the subject.”
— The Architect’s Journal, July 2004
“ …a true work of urban design, in that it focuses on the connection between form of cities and their architecture … brings a European vision to the topic.”
— Landscape Architect & Specifier News, August 2004
