附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-203) and index.
Haussmannien Paris, 1853-82 -- London : the garden cities, 1905-25 -- The extension of Amsterdam, 1913-34 -- The new Frankfurt and Ernst May, 1925-30 -- Le Corbusier and the cité radieuse -- The metamorphosis of the block and the practice of space -- The development and diffusion of architectural models -- Building the city, 1975-95 -- An Anglo-American postscript.
摘要:This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town planning, is the essential framework for everyday life. Only by investigating the urban tissue will it be possible to understand the complex relationships between plot and built form, between streets and.
