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Temporary and tactical urbanism : (Re)assembling urban space
Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects range from guerrilla gardens and bike lanes to more formalised temporary beaches and swimming pools, parklets, pop-up plazas and buildings and container towns. These practices enable diverse forms of economic, social and artistic life that are usually repres…
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- 9781032256535
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- 207 p. ; 23 cm.
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- 725.9 Ste t
Public spaces and urbanity : how to design humane cities
Taking examples from major European cities, 'Public Spaces and Urbanity' is a practical guide demonstrating what urban development with a human face might look like. This involves renewing and enhancing humane cities using architecture on a human scale while taking their history into account. Thus the book follows the tradition established by Jan Gehl that regards urban space as a framework for…
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- 9783869226149
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- 271 p. ; 28 cm.
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- 724.6 Pål p
The Street : a quintessential social public space
The primary research for this book was conducted on three streets in Massachusetts: Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge; Harvard Street, Coolidge Corner, Brookline; and Elm Street, Davis Square, Somerville.
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- 9780415737296
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- 237 p. ; 25 cm.
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- 307.76 Meh s
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