The city as a tangled bank : urban design versus urban evolution / / Terry Farrell ; cover design, page design and layouts by Karen Willcox ; drawings by Duncan Whatmore
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| Autore: |
Farrell Terry
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| Titolo: |
The city as a tangled bank : urban design versus urban evolution / / Terry Farrell ; cover design, page design and layouts by Karen Willcox ; drawings by Duncan Whatmore
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester, England : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.1216 |
| Soggetto topico: | City planning |
| Emergence (Philosophy) | |
| Pedestrian areas | |
| Altri autori: |
WillcoxKaren
WhatmoreDuncan
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Emergence of Emergence; Chapter 2: The Urbicultural Revolution; Chapter 3: Connectedness and the Nurturing of Invention; Chapter 4: The DNA of Habitat; Chapter 5: Time, Layers and City Identity; Chapter 6: Architecture Out of Urbanism; Chapter 7: The High Art of Adaptation; Chapter 8: Urban Activism; Chapter 9: The Era of the Digital City; Conclusion; Bibliography; Picture Credits |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Here Sir Terry Farrell, who has built an international career as an architect-planner, encourages other planners and architects to follow the biologists-look at, learn from, and, indeed, admire the nature of the forces that drive the change, and then with humility and respect work with them to nudge, anticipate and prepare for where it takes us. Searching for patterns within the apparent turbulence and complexity, he analyses the notions of urban design and urban evolution and examines whether or not they need necessarily be seen as opposing one another. The first two chapters discuss emerg |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The city as a tangled bank |
| ISBN: | 1-118-48729-X |
| 1-118-78319-0 | |
| 1-118-48730-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910140286403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Architectural Design Primer