Urban Blocks and Grids: History, Technical Features, and Outcomes
This book is about urban blocks and grids, one of the fundamental ways in which the space of cities and other urban settlements are arranged and ordered. It aims to trace the lineage of this form of city making across several cultural divides which have been in play, so to speak, for many centuries. Arrangements are strictly rectilinear in many circumstances, though certainly not all, as the following sections will make clear. In the main, urban blocks are defined by or made up of buildings, also as described in the following sections, although not always either. Interest here in the subject sprang from several sources. - Excerpt from Book In…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Berg, Hanne J. van den / Wang, Liang
- ISBN: 978-613-8-91667-3
- EAN: 9786138916673
- Produktnummer: 37281846
- Verlag: Scholars' Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 188 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.1 cm 298 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 298
Über den Autor
Peter G. Rowe is the Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He is also co-founder and chairman of SURBA: the Studio for Urban Analyses in Brooklyn, New York.
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