Ivor Samuels, Phillippe Panerai, Jean Castex

Urban Forms

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing this transformation, this book states 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780750656078
• ISBN-10: 0750656077
• Artikelnr.: 21979608

Autorenporträt

Philippe Panerai, Jean Castex, Jean-Charles Depaule, Ivor Samuels, Olga Vitale Samuels

Inhaltsangabe

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.