Foundations of Urban Design
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Foundations of Urban Design
By (Author) Marcel Smets
Actar Publishers
Actar Publishers
1st May 2023
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Landscape architecture and design
The arts: general topics
Teaching of a specific subject
711.4
Physical Properties
Hardback
144
Width 150mm, Height 218mm
Description
The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts.
Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. Still, we are warned, the presented antagonisms are not a priori in opposition, but rather complementary.
Reviews
"With this book, Marcel Smets not only offers an inspiring vocabulary to describe the spatial features of the city but, above all, a unique dictionnaire raisonn to discuss past and future interventions in our largest man-made artefact." -- Tom Avermaete, Chair for the History and Theory of Urban Design, ETH Zrich.
Author Bio
Marcel SMETS has been engaged in all sides of urbanism. He taught urban design at the KU. Leuven in Belgium and Harvard's GSD, he is a respected author and a distinguished urban designer. His books explore the origin of ideas and development of concepts in urbanism and infrastructure design. His projects investigate the urban reappropriation of former industrial sites and infrastructural amenities, notably in Leuven, Brussels and Antwerp (B), Rouen and Nantes (F), Genua and Conegliano (I).
