Main entry:

Panerai, Philippe.

Title & Author:

Urban forms : death and life of the urban block / Philippe Panerai, Jean Castex & Jean-Charles Depaule ; English edition and additional material by Ivor Samuels ; translated by Olga Vitale Samuels.

Publication:

Oxford [England] ; Boston : Architectural Press, 2004.

Description:

xi, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-203) and index.
Haussmannien Paris, 1853-82 -- London : the garden cities, 1905-25 -- The extension of Amsterdam, 1913-34 -- The new Frankfurt and Ernst May, 1925-30 -- Le Corbusier and the cité radieuse -- The metamorphosis of the block and the practice of space -- The development and diffusion of architectural models -- Building the city, 1975-95 -- An Anglo-American postscript.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"Urban Forms: The Death and Life of the Urban Block is concerned with the fundamental grammar of our cities which is the key to successful urban environments."
"This work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town planning, is the essential framework for everyday life. Only by investigating the urban tissue will it be possible to understand the complex relationships between plot and built form, between streets and buildings and between these forms and design practices."
"The chosen trail of the first French edition - Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt - is one of continuously evolving modernity. It outlines a history, which, in one century (1860-1960), completely changed the aspect of our towns and cities and transformed our way of life. The shock has been such that we are still looking for answers, still attempting to find urban forms than can accommodate present day ways of life and at the time maintain the qualities of the traditional town."
"This English edition brings the story forward to the present day in Britain and the United States where it considers the impact of the New Urbanism which has sought to re-establish former relationships within the urban tissue. In a sense, this postscript closes the circle that the French book opened."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0750656077 (alk. paper)
9780750656078 (alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning Europe History 19th century.
City planning Europe History 20th century.
City planning.
City planning Europe History.
Architecture Europe 19th century.
Architecture Europe History 20th century.
City blocks Europe History.
City Planning
Urbanisme.
Urbanisme Europe Histoire.
Architecture Europe 19e siècle.
Architecture Europe 20e siècle.
Îlots (Urbanisme) Europe Histoire.
Immeubles d'habitation Europe Histoire.
urban planning.
City blocks
Architecture
Stadswijken.
Stedenbouw.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Stadsplanering.
Urbanism.
Europe
PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA Europa Storia Sec. 19.-20.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Castex, Jean.
Depaule, Jean-Charles.
Samuels, Ivor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246627
Call No.: BIB 176212
Status: Available