Urban Forms: The Death and Life of the Urban Block

by JeanCastex (Author), IvorSamuels (Author), PhillippePanerai (Author), JeanCharlesDepaule (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $44.48

  Argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing this transformation, this book states 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.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $52.13

  Argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing this transformation, this book states 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.