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Towns and Cities: Function in Form - Urban Structures, Economics and Society (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Towns and Cities: Function in Form - Urban Structures, Economics and Society (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Design and the Built Environment
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Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are
structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and
thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design. This is not
urban design in the sense of the practice of design; rather it is a
theory of the form of the town at all scales - why towns and cities
happen to be structured the way they are as a result of the social,
political, legal and (especially) economic forces that create them.
The shape of the city at every scale, from the internal
configuration of dwellings all the way up to the superstructure of
the whole city, can be seen to arise from the interplay between
three antagonistic socio-economic tensions. In going about our
daily business and in championing particular political objectives,
we collectively fashion our cities in terms of their structure and
form. This leads to various new ways of understanding how and why
our cities so happen to be configured the way they are. The book
makes a step change from any other comparable studies by
understanding our towns and cities in terms of function in form.
This helps us to appreciate why every town is a recognisable town,
wherever it is. Different urban environments in different parts of
the world, past and present, can come to be seen according to their
similarities instead of their differences. Furthermore, by
appreciating how the economic influences of everyday life structure
our towns and cities, we can in turn begin to understand better how
the shape of towns and cities affects the quality of life of
inhabitants and the cohesiveness of communities. In covering all
scales from inside the home to macrostructure of the city, the book
encapsulates urban design through to town planning and does not
seek to distinguish between the various design disciplines.
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