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By
Ivor Samuels, Urban Morphology Research Group, Birmingham University, UK Civic Trust Regeneration Unit, UK
Phillippe Panerai, School of Architecture of Paris-Villemin, DEA Schools of Architecture- French Inst of Urbanism, France
Jean Castex, School of Architecture of Versailles, DEA Schools of Architecture- French Inst of Urbanism, France
Jean Charles Depaule, CNRS Maison Mediterran e of Human Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France
Description
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.
Audience
Architects, urban designers, urban planners, and students of the same.
Contents
Foreword. Introduction. Chapter 1: The Paris of Haussmann 1853-1882; Chapter 2: London: the garden cities 1905-1925; Chapter 3: The expansions
of Amsterdam 1913-1934; Chapter 4: The new Frankfurt and Ernst May 1925-1930; Chapter 5: Le Corbusier and The Cit Radieuse; Chapter
6: The metamorphosis of the plot and urban design; Chapter 7: The development and transmission of architectural models; Chapter 8: Building
the city; 1975-1995; Chapter 9 :An Anglo-American Postscript. References. Index.
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Paperback, 240 pages, publication date: MAY-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5607-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5607-7
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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