Foundations of Urban Design

Smets, Marcel

ISBN 10: 1638400334 / ISBN 13: 9781638400332

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Foundations of Urban Design
• Publisher: 0
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1638400334
• ISBN 13: 9781638400332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Marcel SMETS has been engaged in all sides of urbanism. He taught urban design at the KU. Leuven in Belgium and Harvard’s GSD, he is a respected author and a distinguished urban designer. His books explore the origin of ideas and development of concepts in urbanism and infrastructure design. His projects investigate the urban reappropriation of former industrial sites and infrastructural amenities, notably in Leuven, Brussels and Antwerp (B), Rouen and Nantes (F), Genua and Conegliano (I).