The City as Architecture / / Sophie Wolfrum, Alban Janson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Wolfrum, Sophie,; Janson, Alban,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)

Architecture creates complex spatial situations that are the subject of urban design. Design uses a repertoire of specific architectural means in a creative way, resulting in cities that can be lived in and perceived in their three-dimensional experience. The current book, an extended new edition of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1. Urban Design is Architecture
• 2. What Constitutes the ‘Architectural’?
• Competence of Architecture
• 3. A Unique Kind of Reality – On Situations
• 4. See and Be Seen – On Scenes
• 5. Architecture as Event – On Performativity
• 6. Distinctness and Scope – On Capacity
• 7. The Beauty of the Big City – On Atmosphere
• 8. Spaces with Qualities – On Places
• 9. Fox and Hedgehog – On Concepts
• Architectural Repertoire
• 10. The Intervolumetric City – On Space and Object
• 11. The Outside is the Inside of Outside – On Inside and Outside
• 12. Still Here While Being There – On Boundaries and Thresholds
• 13. Porosity – On Interpenetration
• 14. Walking in the City – On Motion
• 15. No Ideas but in Things – On Materiality
• 16. City as Text – On Signs and Expressions
• 17. A Well-Considered Spatial Framework – On Structure
• Urban Design
• 18. A Method for the Concrete Case – On Design
• Bibliography
• Picture Credits