1 minute read
Foundations of Urban Design
033 ·
Foundations of Urban Design
Advertisement
Marcel Smets
“With this book, Marcel Smets not only offers an inspiring vocabulary to describe the spatial features of the city but, above all, a unique dictionnaire raisonné to discuss past and future interventions in our largest man-made artefact.”
Tom Avermaete, Chair for the History and Theory of Urban Design, ETH Zürich.
“Marcel Smets’ lexicon of fundamentals offers an operative conceptual framework for urban design, a series of spatial elements, systems and approaches that become a starter tool-kit for the contemporary urbanist. It is an important contribution to the idea of a reflective yet pragmatic form of urbanism that maps the existing urban condition and at the same time rewrites it as a series of spatial figures for a possible or even desired urbanity”.
Els Verbakel, UNESCO Chair in Urban Design and Conservation Studies, BEZALEL Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Publication date Size Format ISBN Printed · EN Price Sep 2022 5.9 x 8.6 in / 15 x 22 cm Hardcover · 144 pages 978-1-63840-033-2 $39.95 / €35 / £35
Related Titles General Theory of Urbanization 1864 ISBN 978-1-94515-090-6 Mute Icons ISBN 978-1-94515-086-9 Architecture as Measure ISBN 978-1-94876-529-9
