The Evolution of Urban Form: Typology for Planners and Architects - Softcover

Case Scheer, Brenda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367330075 ISBN 13: 9780367330071

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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 ti

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

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

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 practitioners. The 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"

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 practitioners. The book is especially valuable in that it avoids traditionalist nostalgia and tries to underŽstand 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0367330075
• ISBN 13: 9780367330071
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144