Urban Design: Urban Forms

Ivor Samuels, Phillippe Panerai, Jean Castex, Jean Charles Depaule "Urban Forms". This book discusses how to analyze a space to live and dead space. describe the shape of space and the search for the missing space in a city. this book presents the view 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. Only by investigating the urban tissue will it be possible to understand the complex relationships between plot and built form, between streets and buildings and between these forms and design practices

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Architectural Press | 2004-06-15 | ISBN: 0750656077 | 240 pages | PDF | 7,3 MB