Loose Space (eBook, ePUB)

Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life
Redaktion: Franck, Karen; Stevens, Quentin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With over 100 illustrations and diverse international examples, experts in urban design discuss the theory and practice surrounding under- and undesigned urban spaces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135993177
• Artikelnr.: 39266277

Autorenporträt

Karen A. Franck is a Professor in the School of Architecture and the Department of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Quentin Stevens is a Lecturer in urban design at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Tying Down Loose Space Appropriation Found Spaces: Freedom of Choice in
Public Life. Open-Ended Space: Urban Streets in Two Cultural Contexts.
Betwixt and Between: Building Thresholds, Liminality and Public Space
Tension Urban Appropriation and Loose Spaces in the Guadalajara Cityscape.
Urban Slippage: Smooth and Striated Streetscapes in Bangkok. Transforming
Public Space into Sites of Mourning and Free Expression. Central Park: The
Aesthetics of Order and the Appearance of Looseness Resistance
Heterotopias and the Experience of Porous Space. Stalker on Location. Dead
Zones, Outdoor Rooms and the Architecture of Transgression Discovery
Social Practices, Sensual Excess and Aesthetic Transgression in Industrial
Ruins. Unruly and Robust: An Abandoned Industrial River. Patterns of the
Unplanned. Annotated Bibliography