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"Urban forms : the death and life of the urban block" is concerned with the fundamental grammar of our cities which is the key to successful urban environmnents. This work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between(...)
Urban Theory
June 2004, Oxford
Urban forms : the death and life of the urban block
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"Urban forms : the death and life of the urban block" is concerned with the fundamental grammar of our cities which is the key to successful urban environmnents. This work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the dynamic 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 relationship between plot and built form, between streets and buildings and between these forms and design practices.
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June 2004, Oxford
Urban Theory