The Evolution of Urban Form: Typology for Planners and Architects
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932364870 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brenda Case Scheer, AICP is the Dean and Professor of Architecture and City Metropolitan for the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Utah.
Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? Brenda Case Scheer tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designers, and students concerned with how cities take shape. Suitable for professional planners, architects, urban designers, and students, The Evolution of Urban Form includes practical examples of how typology is critical to analytical, design, and regulatory situations.. Planners and architects, consciously and unconsciously, refer to building types as they work through urban design problems and regulations. This b
Randall Imai said Modest Book, Heavy Message. Scheer's approach to explaining the complexity of the built environment through the lens of contemporary building typology will be a valuable tool in how we seek to improve metropolitan development, particularly in the light of our new economic realities. The predominant penchant of city designers for the time before cars is appreciatively absent from this discourse; Scheer instead looks directly at the now-obvious conclusion that suburbia with all of its attendant ills is with us for . The fundamental purpose of a City is economy. This book really gets at the fundamentals of why buildings are designed and built the way they are and how planning needs to acknowledge and accommodate these purposes. Excellent book. I refer to it often when I approach architects and developers about their designs.
-Christopher J. The book is especially valuable in that it avoids traditionalist nostalgia and tries to under¬stand the most “disordered” parts of our American urban fabric in a way that is honest and optimistic about possibilities for change in the contemporary metropolis.-Marshall Brown, Illinois Institute of TechnologyThis book helps link academic studies of building types with contemporary practice, by providing a clear introduction to the history, theory, and present-day attitudes toward building types. Scheer provides a fresh perspective on the relation between ideal forms and actual places. The language is clear, the illustrations well-chosen, and the relationship between history and contemporary ideas is strongly made. Duerksen. Essential reading for all thinking planners and architects. - Howard Davis, University of OregonOne of the most thoughtful and penetrati