Designing the City of Reason | Foundations and Frameworks

Ali Madanipour

ISBN 10: 041542092X / ISBN 13: 9780415420921

Published by Routledge, 2007

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Designing the City of Reason | Foundations and Frameworks | Ali Madanipour | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2007 | Routledge | EAN 9780415420921 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Designing the City of Reason | Foundations and Frameworks
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041542092X
• ISBN 13: 9780415420921
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 19D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 535 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

With a practical approach to theory, Designing the City of Reason offers new perspectives on how differing belief systems and philosophical approaches impact on city design and development, exploring how this has changed before, during and after the impact of modernism in all its rationalism.

Looking at the connections between abstract ideas and material realities, this book provides a social and historical account of ideas which have emerged out of the particular concerns and cultural contexts and which inform the ways we live. By considering the changing foundations for belief and action, and their impact on urban form, it follows the history and development of city design in close conjunction with the growth of rationalist philosophy. Building on these foundations, it goes on to focus on the implications of this for urban development, exploring how public infrastructures of meaning are constructed and articulated through the dimensions of time, space, meaning, value and action.

With its wide-ranging subject matter and distinctive blend of theory and practice, this book furthers the scope and range of urban design by asking new questions about the cities we live in and the values and symbols which we assign to them.

About the Author

Ali Madanipour