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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195037537
ISBN-139780195037531
eBay Product ID (ePID)59464
Product Key Features
Book TitleNew Theory of Urban Design
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUrban & Land Use Planning, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, History / General
Publication Year1987
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Architecture
AuthorChristopher Alexander
Book SeriesCenter for Environmental Structure Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight13.1 Oz
Item Length5.6 in
Item Width8.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN85-025854
Dewey Edition19
Reviews'immensely compelling ... It is simply written and illustrated, successfully avoiding the opaque jargon and pretentious gloss often found in such publications. It is a welcome addition to the tiny body of literature on urban design and an essential addition to the 'elbow libraries' of students and practitioners.'Francis Tibbalds, RIBA Journal
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Decimal711/.4/01
Table Of ContentINTRODUCTIONPART I. THEORY1: The Idea of a Growing Whole2: The Overriding Rule3: The Seven Detailed Rules of GrowthPART II. EXPERIMENTPART III. EVALUATIONACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SynopsisIn this radical new look at the theory and practice of urban design, Christopher Alexander asks why our modern cities so often lack a sense of natural growth, and suggests a set of rules and guidelines by which we can inject that 'organic' character back into our High Streets, buildings, and squares. At a time when so many of Britain's inner cities are undergoing, or are in need of, drastic renovation, Christopher Alexander's detailed account of his own experiments in urban-renewal in San Francisco makes thought-provoking reading., Great cities of the past, Alexander writes, offer a feeling of wholeness, of organic unity that surfaces in every detail--a unity that is absent from the modern metropolis. This volume applies his concepts of architecture to urban design, providing seven laws designed to regain that organic unity. He then shows these principles in action, showing how they worked in a mass experiment involving a hypothetical redesign of San Francisco. The result is an important newlook at how we think about urban design., The venerable cities of the past, such as Venice or Amsterdam, convey a feeling of wholeness, an organic unity that surfaces in every detail, large and small, in restaurants, shops, public gardens, even in balconies and ornaments. But this sense of wholeness is lacking in modern urban design, with architects absorbed in problems of individual structures, and city planners preoccupied with local ordinances, it is almost impossible to achieve. In this groundbreaking volume, architect and planner Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of urban design which attempts to recapture the process by which cities develop organically. To discover the kinds of laws needed to create a growing whole in a city, Alexander proposes here a preliminary set of seven rules which embody the process at a practical level and which are consistent with the day-to-day demands of urban development. He then puts these rules to the test, setting out with a number of his graduate students to simulate the urban redesign of a high-density part of San Francisco, initiating a project that encompassed some ninety different design problems, including warehouses, hotels, fishing piers, a music hall, and a public square. This extensive experiment is documented project by project, with detailed discussion of how each project satisfied the seven rules, accompanied by floorplans, elevations, street grids, axonometric diagrams and photographs of the scaled-down model which clearly illustrate the discussion. A New Theory of Urban Design provides an entirely new theoretical framework for the discussion of urban problems, one that goes far to remedy the defects which cities have today., The venerable cities of the past, such as Venice or Amsterdam, convey a feeling of wholeness, an organic unity that surfaces in every detail, large and small, in restaurants, shops, public gardens, even in balconies and ornaments. But this sense of wholeness is lacking in modern urban design, with architects absorbed in problems of individual structures, and city planners preoccupied with local ordinances, it is almost impossible to achieve. In this groundbreaking volume, the newest in a highly-acclaimed series by the Center for Environmental Structure, architect and planner Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of urban design which attempts to recapture the process by which cities develop organically. To discover the kinds of laws needed to create a growing whole in a city, Alexander proposes here a preliminary set of seven rules which embody the process at a practical level and which are consistent with the day-to-day demands of urban development. He then puts these rules to the test, setting out with a number of his graduate students to simulate the urban redesign of a high-density part of San Francisco, initiating a project that encompassed some ninety different design problems, including warehouses, hotels, fishing piers, a music hall, and a public square. This extensive experiment is documented project by project, with detailed discussion of how each project satisfied the seven rules, accompanied by floorplans, elevations, street grids, axonometric diagrams and photographs of the scaled-down model which clearly illustrate the discussion. A New Theory of Urban Design provides an entirely new theoretical framework for the discussion of urban problems, one that goes far to remedy the defects which cities have today.
LC Classification NumberNA9031.N48 1987
As told toNeis, Hajo, Anninou, Artemis, King, Ingrid
