Urban Intensities : Contemporary Housing Types and Territories / Peter G. Rowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowe, Peter G.

Contributor:

Kan, Har Ye.

De Gruyter Online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing.

Community development, Urban.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Birkhäuser, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Accomodation of diversity and the creation of urban density are a focus of world-wide building and planning activities today. This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that it is a specific quality, urban intensity, which determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created. Comparisons with historical models and critical appraisals based on the authors' unique standing give ample information on the pros and cons of major types of housing, their pitfalls and successful examples. Newly created sets of drawings, from floor plans to spectacular 3D aerial views of the buildings in their urban contexts, accompany each of the more than twenty case studies that are described and analyzed in detail. The approach taken here relates to many pressing issues in contemporary housing, including the avoidance of urban sprawl, the revival of city centers and the ongoing search for innovative housing types.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9783038216476

303821647X

OCLC:

890071081

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.