Conrad Kickert, Hans Karssenberg

Street-Level Architecture (eBook, PDF)

The Past, Present and Future of Interactive Frontages

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates that designers, developers, planners, and managers ultimately have to create the right preconditions for inhabitants and passersby to bring frontages to life. These preconditions connect architecture to its urban, social, economical, and technological context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000603347
• Artikelnr.: 64181888

Autorenporträt

Conrad Kickert, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning. Conrad has a background in urbanism and architecture from the TU Delft (the Netherlands) and holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Michigan. He has worked as an urban researcher and designer for various design offices, property developers and nonprofit organizations in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His research focuses on the evolving relationship between urban form, urban life and the urban economy. Dr. Kickert has authored peer-reviewed articles, edited books on bottom-up urbanism and urban retail, and recently authored the award-winning Dream City - Creation, Destruction and Reinvention in Downtown Detroit. His research and studio work has been supported by numerous corporations, foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Hans Karssenberg is a partner at STIPO, a team for urban development, with offices in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Athens and projects throughout Europe. Hans has extensive experience developing, programming, and managing interactive frontages. In partnership with nearly 100 practitioners, scholars, and regulators, STIPO has compiled successful strategies for frontage reactivation in the open-source online and print book series The City at Eye Level. The practical applicability and extensive reach of The City at Eye Level has not just generated readership across the globe but also fueled professional projects on frontages across Europe. STIPO is at the heart of the growing European placemaking network, and has partnered with UN Habitat, Project for Public Spaces, and various universities and foundations.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Hans Karssenberg. Acknowledgements. 1.Introduction. 2.Detroit
Eye level death and resurrection. 3.Birmingham
The concrete collar unleashed. 4.The Hague
The layered city at eye level. 5.Vancouver
The frontage formula. 6.The frontage ecosystem. 7.Commercial life
Eye level transactions in the city. 8.Life beyond transactions
New destinations in the city. 9.Living at eye level
Prospect and refuge. 10.Conclusion
Living it up. Index.