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100 _aSmets, Marcel
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245 0 _aFoundations of urban design /
_cMarcel Smets
260 _aNew York :
_bActar D,
_c2023
300 _a678 pages.
365 _bUSD50.00
500 _a3 user
505 _aRibbon-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.
520 _aThe 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.
650 _aARCHITECTURE -- GENERAL
650 _aARCHITECTURE -- LANDSCAPE
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