Basics urban building blocks / Thorsten Bürklin, Michael Peterek ; [translation into English, Adam Blauhut , Joseph O'Donnell].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bürklin, Thorsten.

Contributor:

Peterek, Michael, 1956-

Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

Series:

Basics (Basel, Switzerland)

Basics

Standardized Title:

Basics Stadtbausteine. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Space (Architecture).

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

72 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Urban building blocks

Place of Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2008]

Summary:

Our cities and neighborhoods are composed of Urban Building Blocks and a knowledge of these elementary components is part of the basic equipment of city planning. It is absolutely essential for urban design that one understands their form and structure, their functional conditions, and the differentiation into private and public spheres, as well as the ways they are networked into their surroundings. Study of these city building blocks represents a first step toward understanding, and successfully developing the built structure of the city as a physical and social habitat. Themes are - the row, - the block, - the courtyard (the block in reverse), - the passageway, - the line, - the solitaire, - the group, - the "shed."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 71).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

ISBN:

9783764384609

3764384603

OCLC:

221556430