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Author Rowe, Peter G

Title Urban Intensities : Contemporary Housing Types and Territories
Published Basel/Berlin/Boston : Birkhäuser, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages)
Contents Urban block shapers -- Housing and landscapes -- Superblock configurations -- Tall towers -- Big buildings -- Infrastructural engagements -- Indigenous reinterpretations -- Infill and puntal interventions -- Housing special populations -- A turning point
Summary This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created. Comparisons with historical models and critical appraisals based on the authors'' unique standing give information on the pros and cons of major types of housing, their pitfalls and successful examples
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject City planning.
Urban density.
Housing.
Architecture and society.
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
Architecture and society
City planning
Housing
Urban density
Form Electronic book
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