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Touching the city : thoughts on urban scale /
Scale in cities is relative and absolute. It has the ability to make us feel at home in the world or alien from it; connected or disconnected. Both large and small scale in cities can be beautiful; both are right, neither is wrong. Whilst accepting that prescription is no answer, ''getting...
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2014.
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| Series: | Architectural design primer.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Zooming In; Under the Table; Intermediary Scale; To Connect or Dis-connect; References; Chapter 1 On Scale and Size; Detroit; Centredness; Motor City; Definitions; The American Dream; After the Boom; Moving Out; Today and Tomorrow; References; Chapter 2 On Scale and Movement; Paris 1925; Absolutes and Relativities; The Car: A Deceptive Measure; The Train: Recalibrating the City; Bikes and Neighbourhoods; Walkable City -- Msheireb, Doha; Air and Ether; References; Chapter 3 On Scale and Edges; Far Too Far. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a City CarvedLiquid Space; Stitching the City; At Home in the City; Outdoor Rooms; References; Chapter 4 On Scale and Grain; Jigsaws and Patchworks; New Order and the Dangers of Repetition; On Fine and Coarse Grain; Urban Jazz; On Grain and Directionality; History Speeded Up; On Patina; References; Chapter 5 On Scale and Form; On Footprint; Responsive Form; Grandeur and Intimacy; Blow Up; Two Big Domes; On Drawing; References; Chapter 6 On Scale, Skeletons and Surface; Skin and Bones; The Unité d'Habitation; Le Modulor; Geometry and Proportion; The Grand Order; Micro-Order; References. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 7 On Scale and DetailWithin the Thickness of the Wall; Montepulciano and Todi: Muscle or Frill; Venice, Rome and Doha; Like Nature; References; Conclusion; From Nature; All Change; Reprise; Epilogue; References; Select Bibliography; Index; Picture Credits; EULA. | |
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