Main entry:

Pålsson, Karsten, author.

Title & Author:

Public spaces and urbanity : how to design humane cities / Karsten Pålsson ; English translation, Karen Steenhard.

Publication:

Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2017]
©2017

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 29 cm.

Series:

Construction and design manual

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-271).
Foreword : Renewing the city -- Historical outline : Renaissance city order ; Industrial age cities ; Organic cities ; Modernism in architecture ; The struggle for a humane city ; Gentle urban regeneration ; Urban sprawl and wasted resources -- Humane cities : Return to the dense city ; 10 themes in city transformation -- Renewing dense urban areas : Spandauer Vorstadt, Berlin ; Svømmehals Quarter, Copenhagen ; Lindevangs Quarter, Copenhagen ; District 8, Budapest -- Culling dense urban areas : Chamisso Platz area, Berlin ; Eixample, Barcelona ; BaNanna Park, Copenhagen -- Constructing infill buildings : La Ribera, Barcelona ; Menilmontant, Paris ; Gipsplatz, Berlin ; Marktstraase, Hamburg ; Østerbrogade, Copenhagen ; Pile Alle, Copenhagen -- Transforming urban areas : Turbinen Platz area, Zürich ; Carlsberg City, Copenhagen ; Falkenried, Hamburg -- Transforming buildings : San Miquel Market, Madrid ; Frederiksberg Riding Ring, Copenhagen ; CaixaForum, Madrid ; Wennberg Silo, Copenhagen -- Reconstructing dense urban areas : Friedrichwerder, Berlin ; Odense city center, Odense ; Katharinen Quarter, Hamburg -- Establishing linear city space : Bicycle routes, Copenhagen ; Rambla del Poblenou, Barcelona ; Passeig de Sant Joan, Barcelona ; Oderberger Strasse, Berlin ; Vester Voldgade, Copenhagen -- Renewing local centers : Valby urban center, Copenhagen ; Vanløse local center, Copenhagen ; Vaulx-en-Velin, Lyon -- Developing new dense urban areas : EuropaCity, Berlin ; Nordhavn, Copenhagen ; Hammarby Sjöstadt, Stockholm ; Sluseholmen, Copenhagen -- Densification of modernism's urban areas : Jakobsberg, Stockholm ; Äppleträdgården, Götenborg ; Gyldenrisparken, Copenhagen ; Vaulx-en-Velin, Lyon ; Urbanplanen, Copenhagen.
Translated from the Danish.

Summary:

"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 people to live in and socialise. The European tradition of the dense classical city marks the point of departure for this book. Special emphasis is placed on physical and spatial parameters, on development patterns and building types, on the guiding principles governing access, and on interconnections with public roads and pathways - all of which form the foundations of urban life as well as cities that provide safety and security. The book is divided into ten thematic chapters, each providing a definition and general outline of core challenges together with proposals for meeting them. An historical outline of urban development and the practically organised thematic structure underlying concepts discussed allow the examples given to greatly broaden the field of understanding around this topic.-- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9783869226132 hardcover
3869226137 hardcover
9783869226149 paperback
3869226145 paperback

Subject:

Europa
Sociology, Urban Europe.
Public spaces Europe.
Urban policy Europe.
City planning Europe.
Cities and towns Europe.
Architecture Human factors Europe.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Modern.
Sociologie urbaine Europe.
Espaces publics Europe.
Politique urbaine Europe.
Villes Europe.
Architecture Facteurs humains Europe.
Architecture et société.
Public spaces.
Urban policy.
Architecture Human factors.
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Großstadt
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtgestaltung
Städtebau
Stadtökologie
Stadtsoziologie
Stadterweiterung
Stadtumbau
Nachverdichtung
Europe.

Added entries:

Steenhard, Karen, translator.
Construction and design manual.

How to design humane cities

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319152
Call No.: 319152
Copy: 1
Status: Available