TY - BOOK AU - Smets, Marcel TI - Foundations of urban design SN - 9781638400912 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Actar D KW - ARCHITECTURE -- GENERAL KW - ARCHITECTURE -- LANDSCAPE N1 - 3 user; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nulib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=30211841 ER -