- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG; Bilingual edition (Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 3764366702
- ISBN-13: 978-3764366704
- Product Dimensions: 29.9 x 24.5 x 1.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,329,192 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Urban spaces can only be considered a success if they are being used. This volume is an overview of thriving squares and urban spaces in European architecture which have been presented in "Topos" magazine since 1993. It includes examples from Barcelona, Lyon, Reykjavik, Verona, Dublin and Vienna.
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Why should urban planning remain an abstract science, only developing a city and its districts schematically, while another discipline, namely architecture, fills in the schemata with buildings and leaves the rest, that is, the open space, over to the engineers to squeeze in conduits and roads? Read the first page
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Why should urban planning remain an abstract science, only developing a city and its districts schematically, while another discipline, namely architecture, fills in the schemata with buildings and leaves the rest, that is, the open space, over to the engineers to squeeze in conduits and roads? Read the first page
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Urban Squares
1 Jan 2003
Seventeen innovative public spaces, devised for European cities over the past decade, are described and evaluated in this collection of features from Topos, the German landscape magazine. It's a lively mix of plazas and infills, but several-most notably the Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam-are over-designed, require a higher level of maintenance than the city is able to provide, and fail the test of usability.
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