Entrée principale:

Renner, Robin, author.

Titre et auteur:

Urban being : anatomy & identity of the city / Robin Renner.

Édition:

1st edition = 1. Auflage.

Publication:

Salenstein : Niggli Verlag AG, 2018.
©2018

Description:

315 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
[I.] Macroregion : Definition -- Descriptive essay -- Density and dimensions : Eurasia ; America -- Vegetation and city growth : Africa ; South America -- The big three : Europe ; Northeast America ; Central Asia -- [II.] Surrounding : Definition : Europe ; Northeast America ; Central Asia -- Descriptive essay -- Typologies : City cluster: Sudogwon ; City densification: Upper Rhine Valley : Individual city: Central Valley Chile -- Urban nutrition arteries : Yangtze River Delta ; Northeast-American axis ; Central Valley Chile ; Upper Rhine Valley ; European core -- Topography and city growth : Mexico ; SP & RJ ; Sudogwon ; Central Valley Chile -- City cluster : Yantze River Delta ; Northeast-America axis ; European core ; North-Italian lowlands -- [III.] Urban being : Definition : Paris ; Berlin -- Descriptive essay -- Typologies -- Urban nutrition arteries : Munich ; Stuttgart ; Paris ; London ; New Delhi ; Moscow ; Melbourne ; Los Angeles ; Rio de Janeiro ; Dubai ; Tokyo ; Berlin -- Cellular structure : Rio de Janeiro ; Los Angeles ; Paris -- Industrial organs : Los Angeles ; London ; Edmonton -- Green systems : Munich ; Edmonton ; Yaoudé -- Megacities : Los Angeles ; Shanghai ; Mexico City ; London ; Tokyo -- [IV.] Urban nucleus : Definition -- Descriptive essay -- Typologies -- Freeways : Shanghai ; Munich ; Stuttgart -- Green lungs : Central Park, Manhattan ; English Garden, Munich ; Victoria Park, Adelaide ; Schlossgarten, Stuttgart ; Parque Forestal, Santiago de Chile ; Shanghai ; Rio de Janeiro -- Cellular structure : Cell sizes and functions ; Rio de Janeiro ; Munich ; Los Angeles ; Amsterdam -- [V.] Urban cell : Definition -- Descriptive essay -- Urban nutrition arteries : Main artery (boundary of the cell) ; Capillary street (slow traffic) ; Hipódromo, Mexico City ; Providencia, Santiago de Chile ; Former French concession, Shanghai -- Neighbourhood parks : Hipódromo, Mexico City ; City centre, Stuttgart ; Former French concession, Shanghai ; Southeast Edmonton, Edmonton ; Greenery -- Commercial network : Copacabana Rio de Janeiro ; Central Cell, Stuttgart ; Dong Qu, Taipeh ; Epping, outskirts of London -- Hipódromo, Mexico City -- Gastronomy : Central Cell, Stuttgart ; Former French concession, Shanghai ; Providencia, Santiago de Chile -- Commercial network & gastronomy : Old Town, Munich ; Manly, Sydney.
Parallel text in English and German.

Résumé:

There is a long tradition of comparing cities with organisms as they have similarities in their anatomy. But since cities are brought into life by the presence of people, they are less living beings than urban beings with their own identity. This is based on the behaviors, needs and requirements of the residents. In other words, the anatomy of the city informs its identity? certain city structures, wherever they are, are influenced in similar ways by the people who interact with them. This volume shows and makes understandable these influences on the living environments of the inhabitants. Through detailed charts and elaborate maps generated from satelite images various city structures are compared across five different dimensions and their influence on the city?s identity through the lived experience of the inhabitants is discussed. These range from local urban cells, explorable by foot, and urban centers to macro-regions, agglomerations of many hundreds of cities that stretch across thousands of kilometers.

ISBN:

9783721209686 (paperback)
3721209680 (paperback)

Sujet:

Architecture Human factors.
Architecture.
City planning.
Cities and towns.
City and town life.
Community development, Urban.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Villes.
Vie urbaine.
Développement communautaire urbain.
cities.
Architektur
Gesellschaft
Stadtentwicklung

Vedettes secondaires:

Urban being: anatomy and identity of the city
Anatomy and identity of the city

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 297530
Cote: BIB 243888
Statut: Disponible