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Design Review - Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control (Hardcover, 1994 ed.) Loot Price: R4,750
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Design Review - Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control (Hardcover, 1994 ed.): Brenda C. Scheer, Wolfgang F.E. Preiser

Design Review - Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)

Brenda C. Scheer, Wolfgang F.E. Preiser

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That the topic ofdesign review is somehow trou My biases are clearfrom the start: I am among blesome is probably one thing all readers can those who believe that, despite all signals to the contrary, the physical structure of our environ agree on. Beyond this, however, I suspect pros pects of consensus are dim. Differing opinions ment can be managed, and that controlling it is on the subject likely range from those desiring the key to the ameliorationofnumerous problems control tothosedesiringfreedom. Saysonecamp: confronting society today. I believe that design our physical and natural environments are going can solve a host ofproblems, and that the design to hell in a hand basket. Says the other: design of the physical environment does influence be review boards are only as good as their members; havior. more often than not their interventions produce Clearly, this is a perspective that encompasses mediocre architecture. more than one building at a time and demands As a town planner and architect, I am sympa that each building understand its place in a larger thetic to the full range of sentiment. Perhaps a context-the city. Indeed, anyone proposing discussion of these two concepts-control and physical solutions to urban problems is designing freedom-and their differences would now be or, as may seem more often the case, destroying useful. But let me instead suggest that both posi the city."

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Imprint: Chapman and Hall
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 1998
First published: 1994
Authors: Brenda C. Scheer • Wolfgang F.E. Preiser
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 219
Edition: 1994 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-412-98351-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects
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LSN: 0-412-98351-6
Barcode: 9780412983511

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