The Form of Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Form of Cities write by Alexander R. Cuthbert. This book was released on 2008-04-15. The Form of Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict. Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy. Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender, for example. Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, but retains a sophisticated interpretative edge. Complements Designing Cities by the same author (Blackwell, 2003).
Cities by Design
Cities by Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities by Design write by Fran Tonkiss. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Cities by Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments. With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic inequality and environmental challenges. Current processes of urbanization too often contribute to intensifying these problems; cities, likewise, will be central to the solutions to such problems. Focusing on a range of cities in developed and developing contexts, Cities by Design highlights major aspects of contemporary urbanization: urban growth, density and sustainability; inequality, segregation and diversity; informality, environment and infrastructure. Offering keen insights into how the shaping of our cities is shaping our lives, Cities by Design provides a critical exploration of key issues and debates that will be invaluable to students and scholars in sociology and geography, environmental and urban studies, architecture, urban design and planning.
Cities and Forms
Cities and Forms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities and Forms write by Serge Salat. This book was released on 2011. Cities and Forms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Towns and Cities: Function in Form
Towns and Cities: Function in Form - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towns and Cities: Function in Form write by Mr Julian Hart. This book was released on 2015-10-28. Towns and Cities: Function in Form available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 structure of towns and cities affect 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 or town planning and does not seek to distinguish between the various design disciplines.
Urban Morphology
Urban Morphology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Morphology write by Vítor Oliveira. This book was released on 2016-03-30. Urban Morphology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a book about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities. It starts presenting the main elements of urban form – streets, urban blocks, plots and buildings – structuring our cities and the fundamental actors and processes of transformation shaping these elements. It then applies this analytical framework to describe the evolution of cities over history as well as to explain the functioning of contemporary cities. After the initial focus on the ‘object’ (cities) the book describes how different researchers and different schools of thought have been dealing with this object since the emergence of Urban Morphology, as the science of urban form, in the turning to the twentieth century. Finally, the book tries to identify what are the most important (and specific) contributions that Urban Morphology has to offer to contemporary cities, societies and economies.
