Gordon Cullen

Concise Townscape (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book pioneered the concept of townscape. 'Townscape' is the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings, streets and space that make up the urban environment. It has been a major influence on architects, planners and others concerned with what cities should look like.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136020896
• Artikelnr.: 38256459

Autorenporträt

Gordon Cullen

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Introduction to 1971 Edition
Casebook: Serial vision
Place
Content
The functional tradition
General Studies: Squares for all tastes
Cross as focal point
Closure
Line of life
Legs and wheels
Hazards
The floor
Prairie planning
Rule of thumb
Street lighting
Outdoor publicity
The wall
The English climate
Casebook precedents
Trees incorporated
Change of level
Here and there
Immediacy
Endpiece
Index