Smets, Marcel <br/><br/>
Foundations of urban design / 
Marcel Smets 
 - New York :  Actar D,  2023 
 - 678 pages. 
<br/><br/> 3 user 
<br/><br/>Ribbon-Cluster --  Ladder-Star -- Network -Polynuclear Field -- Fabric-Citadel --  Fortified Castle -Palace --  Tower-Belfry --  Monument -Icon --  Island-Archipelago --  Oasis-Camp --  Market Square-Parade Ground --  Cape-Lighthouse --  Slope -Step --  Threshold-Transition --  Street-Road --  Path-Avenue --  Brook-Ditch. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781638400912 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>ARCHITECTURE -- GENERAL<br/>ARCHITECTURE -- LANDSCAPE