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Density & atmosphere : on factors relating to building density in the European cities / author, Eberhard Tröger ; editor, Prof. Dietmar Eberle ; photographs, Claudia Klein, Michael Heinrich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tröger, Eberhard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture and society.
- Urban density.
- City planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (536 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A unique and timely handbook, a register, and an analytical tool for anyone interested in the built past and future of the European city
- Dieses Buch untersucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Ausprägungen baulicher Dichte und daraus entstehenden Atmosphären, Nutzungsverteilungen und deren Wertschätzung. Anhand von 9 Dichtekategorien, die den öffentlichen Raum mit einbeziehen, werden 36 exemplarische Quartiere in Zürich, Wien, München und Berlin fotografisch und in Kartenmaterial dokumentiert und ausgewertet. Ein einmaliges Kompendium der mitteleuropäischer Stadträume!
- Contents:
- Photo Essay
- The attuned City
- Introduction
- APPROACH, METHODOLOGY, AND TERMINOLOGY
- The Districts
- Evaluation
- Conclusions
- Berlin
- Only Playing
- City and Atmosphere . Impressions of Vienna
- Forest Fever
- Terminology and Abbreviations
- Figure-Ground Plans of the Cities
- Density Category 1 ( < 0.4): Single-Family House Idyll 1:House and Garden
- Density Category 2 (0.4 – 0.6): Single-Family House Idyll 2: Urban Garden Cities
- Density Category 3 (0.6 – 0.9): Urban A partments in Green Areas 1: Houses and Rows
- Density Category 4 (0.9 – 1.2): Urban Apartments in Green Areas 2: Row and Courtyard
- Density Category 5 (1.2 – 1.5): Urban Apartments in Green Areas 3: Courtyard and Garden
- Density Category 6 (1.5 – 1.9): Inner-City Mixture 1: Courtyard and Street
- Density Category 7 (1.9 – 2.3): Inner-City Mixture 2: Grids, Axes, and Squares
- Density Category 8 (2.3 – 2.7): Inner-City Mixture 3: Historic Suburbs and City Centers
- Density Category 9 ( > 2.7): Inner-City Mixture 4: Commercial Centers
- City Diagrams
- Biographies
- Picture Credits
- Acknowledgements/ Imprint
- Photo Essay by Claudia Klein
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 30, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9783035604399
- 3035604398
- OCLC:
- 899739325
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