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Urban Paleontology - Evolution of Urban Forms (Paperback, New)
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Urban Paleontology - Evolution of Urban Forms (Paperback, New)
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More than ten years ago, when I first read Mario Gandelsonas book
The Urban Context, the beautiful abstract diagrams that the book
presented -the street network of Chicago- fascinated me with the
profound historical and cultural background that they suggested.
Without knowing how this would direct me, I started to draw
something related with the street network of Beijing. That is the
beginning of this book. Among tons of the diagrams that I have
created, most of them have not been incorporated into this book,
while they have directed me into this fascinating research area
which focuses on the "mineralized skeleton," rather than the "soft
tissue" of urban forms. It was not until the recent five years when
Yang and I came across some theories and approaches in paleontology
that we started to integrate them into the street network study in
Beijing and Savannah. Paleontology methods lay the foundation and
provide a systematic and scientific platform for our research. Then
urban paleontology, as a new framework for urban form study,
unfolds itself more and more apparently in front of us. It explores
the evolution of "urban species" based on their remains- "urban
fossils," which describe distinct urban forms with imprints of
their street networks. Just as how a biological fossil serves as a
factual documentation of certain life forms, an urban fossil
provides clues of the existence and transformation of urban forms.
The study of urban paleontology inevitably directs us to further
exploration in the fields of biology, anatomy, archeology, geology,
and the application of computer aided design in the excavation of
urban sites. Upon finishing this book, we realize that our work is
too inadequateto possibly incorporate all the influence that other
disciplines may have on architecture and urban design. What it has
suggested is that architecture presents such a wide array of
connections with other disciplines and becomes more and more
towards an interdisciplinary study. We hope this book has
illustrated the diversity of problems that invite further study and
can serve as a start point for architects to conceive the total
spectrum. -Ming Tang
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