Urban Forms

by Jean Castex, Ivor Samuels, Phillippe Panerai

This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138174076
• ISBN13: 9781138174078
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"