Stadsplanering - arkitektoniska aspekter

"Så byggdes staden" handlar om det vi alla har omkring oss - den byggda miljön. Att förstå sin omgivning är lustfyllt och viktigt: När byggdes huset jag bor i och hur levde människorna då? Här får vi en illustrerad introduktion till stad...

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Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, facade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator: the book seeks to excavate the micro-narratives of building detail.The resul...

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Today's bustling tourism has proved itself a double-edged sword: on the one hand it acquaints great numbers of people with cities and sights they might otherwise have missed; on the other it focuses on individual landmarks that the city as a whole...

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Hur kan vi skapa attraktiva, gröna, levande och hälsosamma städer som främjar ett rikt socialt liv är frågor som blivit allt viktigare. Dagens samhälle är starkt påverkad av 1900-talets omvälvande stadsplaner. Denna bok skildrar hur det gick till ...

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Arkitekten Mats Egelius har arbetat med bostadsarkitektur i fyra decennier med ett starkt engagemang i bostadsfrågorna och en insikt och respekt för bostadskvaliteter. I boken BoStad bostadsarkitektur och stadsbyggnad beskriver och belyser han bos...

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De flesta och kanske också de förnämsta svenska exemplen på helgjutna, konstnärligt högtstående stadsplaner från tidigt 1900-tal skapades i Göteborg då Albert Lilienberg var stadens förste stadsingenjör. Några exempel på platser och stadsmiljöer g...

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»Praktverk om Stockholm i går, i dag och i morgon [...] en faktaspäckad men lättläst och föredömligt illustrerad skildring av Stockholms dynamiska utveckling« DN.se »En bok för alla som är intresserade av stadsutvecklingen i...

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Vad kan vi lära av historien? Svensk bostadsstandard var år 1900 sämst i Europa. Några decennier senare, i slutet av 1960-talet, byggdes det i Sverige flest bostäder i världen, per invånare. I dag särskiljer sig det svenska bostadsbyggandet genom ...

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This study of London and of English social history and manners traces the city's growth from its original walls, emphasizing how the lives of its people shaped the character of the city. Since its first publication in 1934, the book has become a m...

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How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global c...

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Sustainable Stockholm provides a historical overview of Stockholm's environmental development, and also discusses a number of cross-disciplinary themes presenting the urban sustainability work behind Stockholm's unique position, and importantly th...

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Boken är den första på svenska som utförligt behandlar Roms byggnadskonst i vår tid i sammanhang med antikens stad. Här finns en sammanflätad arkitektur- och stadsbyggnadshistoria från antiken till vår tid. Författarna som båda är arkitekter med l...

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The first Danish language version of this book, published in 1971, was very much a protest against the functionalistic principles for planning cities and residential areas that prevailed during that period. The book carried an appeal to show conce...

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Public Places Urban Spaces is a thorough introduction to the principles of urban design theory and practice. Authored by experts in the fields of urban design and planning, it is designed specifically for the 2,500 postgraduate students on Urban D...

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Staden har blivit het. Vi lever nu i en stadsrenässansens era. Därmed inte sagt att de urbana kvaliteterna blivit fler i våra städer, utan s narare att sensibiliteten för staden och dess möjligheter går att finn a hos allt fler. Jane Jacobs klassi...

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Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory. * Repre...

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An authoritative - and fascinating - investigation into the spatial and social dynamics of cities at a global scale Shaping Cities in an Urban Age is the third addition to Phaidon's hugely successful Urban Age series, published in collaboration wi...

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SVENSK STADSPLANERING under den svenska stormaktstiden hade en omfattning som saknar motstycke i dåtidens Europa. Det var en tid av storslagna visioner. Än idag präglar den de flesta av våra äldre städer och den har varit grunden för den fortsatta...

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The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, M...

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Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfolding diversity of residential architecture and spatially restructured cities. The complexity of urban ...

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This book pioneered the concept of townscape. 'Townscape' is the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings, streets and space that make up the urban environment. It has been a major influence on architects, planner...

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In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.

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Roofing looks at traditional roof coverings used on historic buildings. Many materials and systems have been used to provide roof coverings, and the book provides information about their technological evolution, the processes causing deterioration...

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Peter Hall s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth...

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The question of composition and spatial qualities arises in every urban design concept or intervention in the spatial structure of urban public squares. How are the essential elements involved: dimension, proportion, alignment, cohesion, accesses,...

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For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, p...

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Originally published in 1995, Land and Property Markets in Sweden looks at the growing demand for an understanding of the urban land and property markets in Sweden. The book offers detailed accounts of the policy, legislative, and regulatory frame...

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Rome was a huge city. Running it required not only public works and services but also specialised law. This innovative work traces the development of that law and system in the main areas of administration. The book incorporates and develops previ...

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Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality of course the city is four dimensional, and one needs to acknowledge the influence of time in planni...

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Swiss architecture is commonly conotated with the names of celebrated architects such as Marion Botta, Peter Zumthor, or Herzog & de Meuron, and with their iconic buildings. Yet there is much more to the topic than, for example, beautiful priv...

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