Urban intensities : contemporary housing types and territories / Peter G. Rowe, Har Ye Kan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowe, Peter G., author.

Kan, Har Ye, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Urban density.

Housing.

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity 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 information on the pros and cons of major types of housing, their pitfalls and successful examples.

Contents:

Urban block shapers

Housing and landscapes

Superblock configurations

Tall towers

Big buildings

Infrastructural engagements

Indigenous reinterpretations

Infill and puntal interventions

Housing special populations

A turning point.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-03821-647-X

3-03821-101-X

OCLC:

890071081