The Evolution of Urban Form by Brenda Case Scheer
Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designers, and students concerned with how cities take shape. This book provides a fundamental understanding of how physical environments are created, changed, and transformed through ordinary processes over time. Most of the built environment adheres to a few physical patterns, or types, that occur over and over. Planners and architects, consciously and unconsciously, refer to building types as they work through urban design problems and regulations. Suitable for professional planners, architects, urban designers, and students, This book includes practical examples of how typology is critical to analytical, design, and regulatory situations.
Scheer's investigation of building types in the context of urbanism offers a rigorous introduction for students as well as a strong review for academics and practitionersThe book is especially valuable in that it avoids traditionalist nostalgia and tries to under--stand the most "disordered" parts of our American urban fabric in a way that is honest and optimistic about possibilities for change in the contemporary metropolis. -Marshall Brown, Illinois Institute of Technology This book helps link academic studies of building types with contemporary practice, by providing a clear introduction to the history, theory, and present-day attitudes toward building types. The language is clear, the illustrations well-chosen, and the relationship between history and contemporary ideas is strongly made. - Howard Davis, University of Oregon One of the most thoughtful and penetrating critiques of form-based regulations and new urbanism. Scheer provides a fresh perspective on the relation between ideal forms and actual places. Essential reading for all thinking planners and architects. -Christopher J. Duerksen
Brenda Case Scheer, AICP is the Dean and Professor of Architecture and City Metropolitan for the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Utah.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781932364873 |
| ISBN 10 | 1932364870 |
| Title | The Evolution of Urban Form |
| Author | Brenda Case Scheer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Year published | 2010-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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