The evolution of urban form : typology for planners and architects

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The evolution of urban form : typology for planners and architects

Brenda Case Scheer, AICP

Routledge, 2019

  • : pbk

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Includes index

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Description

Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designers, and students concerned with how cities take shape. This book provides a fundamental understanding of how physical environments are created, changed, and transformed through ordinary processes over ti

Table of Contents

1. A Crisis in the Urban Landscape 2. The Origins and Theory of Type 3. Typological Transformation 4. Typology and Urban Transformation 5. Legitimacy and Control 6. Typology and the Disordered City 7. Type in Design and Practice 8. Transformation and Imagination

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  • NCID
    BD06131812
  • ISBN
    • 9780367330071
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 129 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
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