Basics Urban Building Blocks
Our cities and neighborhoods are composed of urban building blocks and a knowledge of these elementary components is part of the basic equipment of city planning. It is absolutely essential for urban design that one understands their form and structure, their functional conditions, and the differentiation into private and public spheres, as well as the ways they are networked into their surroundings. Study of these city building blocks represents a first step toward understanding, and successfully developing the built structure of the city as a physical and social habitat.Themes are - the row, - the block, - the courtyard (the block in reverse), - the passageway, - the line, - the solitaire, - the group, - the "shed".
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Basics Urban Building Blocks
Our cities and neighborhoods are composed of urban building blocks and a knowledge of these elementary components is part of the basic equipment of city planning. It is absolutely essential for urban design that one understands their form and structure, their functional conditions, and the differentiation into private and public spheres, as well as the ways they are networked into their surroundings. Study of these city building blocks represents a first step toward understanding, and successfully developing the built structure of the city as a physical and social habitat.Themes are - the row, - the block, - the courtyard (the block in reverse), - the passageway, - the line, - the solitaire, - the group, - the "shed".
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Basics Urban Building Blocks

Basics Urban Building Blocks

Basics Urban Building Blocks

Basics Urban Building Blocks

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Our cities and neighborhoods are composed of urban building blocks and a knowledge of these elementary components is part of the basic equipment of city planning. It is absolutely essential for urban design that one understands their form and structure, their functional conditions, and the differentiation into private and public spheres, as well as the ways they are networked into their surroundings. Study of these city building blocks represents a first step toward understanding, and successfully developing the built structure of the city as a physical and social habitat.Themes are - the row, - the block, - the courtyard (the block in reverse), - the passageway, - the line, - the solitaire, - the group, - the "shed".

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783035612721
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Publication date: 05/22/2017
Series: Basics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 72
File size: 11 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Thorsten Bürklin, architect, and Michael Peterek, city planner, teach at the University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt am Main.
Thorsten Bürklin, Architekt, und Michael Peterek, Stadtplaner, unterrichten an der Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main.

Table of Contents

Foreword.- Introduction.- Urban building blocks.- Row houses.- The block.- The yard house (the inverted block).- The passage.- The row.- The solitair.- The cluster.- The "shed".- In conclusion.- Appendix.

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