Theories of Urban Form


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2016

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Edited Volume

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Abstract

This reader takes a journey through different positions concerning form in the urban design discourse of the last half a century, with special regard to the reciprocal relationships between material space and human activities. It discusses early post-modern concepts of form, inspired by the urban texture’s figure-ground relations, as well as theories that qualify form through its performance, its social-material relations or operations of its emergence. The aim thereby is to offer a basic grid, which allows for the periodization of different form theories and provides orientation for their discussion, comparison and synthesis.

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ETH Zürich

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STADTPLANUNGSTHEORIE (STÄDTEBAU); THEORY OF URBAN PLANNING (BUILT ENVIRONMENT)

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03660 - Christiaanse, Kees (emeritus) check_circle
02654 - Institut für Städtebau (ehemalig) / Institute for Urban Design (former)
02226 - NSL - Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft / NSL - Network City and Landscape
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG

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