Foundations of Urban Design

Name: Foundations of Urban Design
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781638400332
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By Marcel Smets

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Foundations of Urban Design by Marcel Smets explores urbanity through twenty-nine essays, each focusing on a pair of urbanistic concepts presented as complementary opposites. The book weaves historical and contemporary perspectives with interpretive and practical design approaches, offering a nuanced understanding of the spatial features and dynamics of cities.
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Format: Hardback

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Foundations of Urban Design

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An essential read for students, practitioners, and scholars of urban design and architecture interested in deepening their understanding of urban spatial concepts and their practical implications.

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The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts.

Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. Still, we are warned, 'the presented antagonisms are not a priori in opposition, but rather complementary.'

In Foundations of Urban Design, these essays provide a nuanced understanding of urban design principles, offering insights into how historical contexts and contemporary practices merge to shape urban spaces.

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Tom Avermaete, Chair for the History and Theory of Urban Design at ETH Zurich, praises the book as "an inspiring vocabulary to describe the spatial features of the city" and "a unique dictionnaire raisonne to discuss past and future interventions in our largest man-made artefact."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781638400332

Publisher: Actar Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Actar Publishers

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Marcel SMETS has been engaged in all sides of urbanism. He taught urban design at the KU. Leuven in Belgium and Harvard’s GSD, he is a respected author and a distinguished urban designer. His books explore the origin of ideas and development of concepts in urbanism and infrastructure design. His projects investigate the urban reappropriation of former industrial sites and infrastructural amenities, notably in Leuven, Brussels and Antwerp (B), Rouen and Nantes (F), Genua and Conegliano (I).