Concise townscape
By: Cullen, Gordon
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Publisher: New York Routledge 1971Edition: 1st Ed.Description: 199 Pages | Binding - Paperback |.ISBN: 978-0-7506-2018-5.Subject(s): URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN (AR-UPD)DDC classification: 711.4 Summary: A civic place belongs to everyone and yet to nobody in particular. In Civic Realism, Peter G. Rowe looks at the shape and appearance of civic places, and at the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence. The book is as much about the making and reshaping of civic places as it is about urban architecture per se. According to Rowe, the best civic place-making occurs across the divide between the state and civil society. By contrast, the alternatives are not very attractive. On the one side are state-sponsored edifices and places of authoritarian nature. On the other are the exclusive enclaves of corporate-dominated urban and suburban environments.
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| 711.4 CAS Urban flashes asia | 711.4 CHI Urban composition: Developing community through design | 711.4 COW Design and access statements explained | 711.4 CUL Concise townscape | 711.4 DUA/ZYB Towns and town-making principles | 711.4 EIS/GAL Urban pattern | 711.4 GAL Urban pattern city planning and design |
A civic place belongs to everyone and yet to nobody in particular. In Civic Realism, Peter G. Rowe looks at the shape and appearance of civic places, and at the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence. The book is as much about the making and reshaping of civic places as it is about urban architecture per se. According to Rowe, the best civic place-making occurs across the divide between the state and civil society. By contrast, the alternatives are not very attractive. On the one side are state-sponsored edifices and places of authoritarian nature. On the other are the exclusive enclaves of corporate-dominated urban and suburban environments.
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