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Urban Forms (Hardcover)
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Urban Forms (Hardcover)
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This popular and influential work, translated here into English for
the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the
morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their
buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, 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. The chosen trail of the first French edition - Paris,
London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt - is one of continuously evolving
modernity. It outlines a history, which, in one century
(1860-1960), completely changed the aspect of our towns and cities
and transformed our way of life. The shock has been such that we
are still looking for answers, still attempting to find urban forms
that can accommodate present day ways of life and at the same time
maintain the qualities of the traditional town. This English
edition brings the story forward to the present day and considers
the impact of the New Urbanism in the United States, which, over
the last decade, has sought to re-establish former relationships
within the urban tissue.
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