Main entry:

Hart, Julian.

Title & Author:

Towns and cities, function in form : urban structures, economics and society / Julian Hart, managing Director, Lancefield Consulting Ltd, UK.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

Description:

xx, 180 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Design and the built environment series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Boxes; About the Author; Foreword -- A Town Planning Perspective; Foreword -- A Design Perspective; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The Natural Town; 2 A Journey into Town -- Part 1; 3 Making Places and anti-Places; 4 Competing Spaces and Urban Dynamics; 5 The Ingredients of the City; 6 Density Thresholds; 7 A Journey into Town -- Part 2; 8 Urban Vectors, again; 9 A Place to Live; 10 A Theory of the Town; 11 Urban Energetics; 12 Urban Development and Urban Planning; 13 Urban Design in Practice; 14 Urban Design and Society
Appendix A: Urban Vectors for a Cross-roadReferences; Index

Summary:

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design. This is not urban design in the sense of the practice of design; rather it is a theory of the form of the town at all scales - why towns and cities happen to be structured the way they are as a result of the social, political, legal and (especially) economic forces that create them. The shape of the city at every scale, from the internal configuration of dwellings all the way up to the superstructure of the whole.

ISBN:

9781472458551 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1472458559 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781472458568
(epub)
9781472458575

Subject:

City planning.
Cities and towns.
Urbanization.
Cities
Villes.
Urbanisation.
cities.
urbanization.
Society.

Added entries:

Design and the built environment series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298142
Call No.: BIB 244416
Status: Available