URBANITY AND DENSITY

In the writing of urban design history of the twentieth century, functionalist and avant-garde models of the dissolution of the city are dominating. In contrast this book presents projects whose goal is the ideal of a dense and urbane city. Drawing on plans, built examples and theories of dense and urban cities and city districts in the twentieth century, modern examples of urban design are an alyzed and highlighted, which until now have been evaluated more as fringe phenomena. These include examples characterized by functi onal mix...[Llegir més]