The New City: Foundations [University of Miami School of Architecture] (English and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Graziano Gasparini; Carlos Morales & Maricio Pininilla; Fernando Cortes Larreamendy; Jaime Correa; Jose Gelabert-Navia; John Hancock; Rodolfo Machado; Aldo Rossi; Vittorio Manago Lampugnani

Softcover

ISBN 10: 187827158X ISBN 13: 9781878271587

Publisher: University of Miami School of Architecture, 1991

Synopsis

The most modern of the 'modern' in architecture today are probably our large cities. Their unprecedented size has given rise to a number of new problems that await an architectural solution. With the growth of all large cities, the question of city planning in particular has come to the fore, as in many cases there appears an urgent need to strive for a rational solution to this matter.

Every city plan naturally has two parts: the expanding peripheral part, where technology and art can act rather freely, and the compact town center, where the desire for new form must accommodate itself to the sea of houses, monuments of art, existing facilities, and parks. Both parts are naturally dependent on each other, and many a problem can be solved by considering the municipal area as a whole. Unfortunately greater emphasis is always placed on the seemingly more urgent problems of the town center, and the periphery is treated as a matter of second importance. This is quite wrong because new calamities inevitably arise before long, and questions repeatedly crop up that just as urgently demand solutions.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Miami School of Architecture
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 187827158X
• ISBN 13: 9781878271587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Jean-Francois Lejeune