Foundations of Urban Design
Foundations of Urban Design
$39.95
Smets, Marcel | Barcelona, Spain | Actar, 2022 | Clothbound | 144 pp | 5.9 x 8.6 in | Illustrations in B/W
The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. Still, we are warned, ‘the presented antagonisms are not a priori in opposition, but rather complementary.
