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A City's Architecture - Aberdeen as 'Designed City' (Paperback)
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A City's Architecture - Aberdeen as 'Designed City' (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends
to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally
successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored. In
addition, the more diffuse patterns of settlement of the north and
western parts of Europe are hardly considered at all in comparison
to the tightly formed urban centres of the Mediterranean. However,
the diffuse town/region is typical of our time, whatever the
location. By analysing the development of a successful small city
of ancient foundation which grew from a diffuse long settled and
dense landscape, then demonstrated a slow growth as a tight urban
form before an early adoption of the designed landscape as "town"
lessons can be learned. These lessons may be useful in addressing
the nature and growth of any city or city/region. The story of
Aberdeen is just such an example. Not only are the materials for
its long history present, its relations and concerns with the wider
world are also well attested, and many of the ideas which directed
or significantly impinged on the design of cities were tested
there, or had their origin there. As its form accumulated and
developed over such a long time Aberdeen also suggests the idea of
an architecture of the city. This book examines the development and
design of a city from three inescapable aspects: its location and
character of the landscape; its own particular history of
development; and its cultural responses to various waves of
thought.
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