Skyplane
What Effect Do Towers Have on Urbanism, Sustainability, the Workplace and Historic City Centres
Will be published approx. on 1. May 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-86840-822-4 (ISBN)
Description
High-rise buildings dominate the skyline of modern cities around the world. But how do they affect urbanism and culture? Are they necessary to cities? Can they be made more formally engaging? In this fully-illustrated volume, some of architecture's leading thinkers and practitioners come together to examine the global phenomenon of the tall building. The contributors survey tall buildings around the world, such as the Dong Towers of Southern China, high-rise housing in Hong Kong, and the iconic buildings of Seidler and Ingenhoven in Australia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 262 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
760 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86840-822-4 (9780868408224)
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Persons
Xing Ruan is professor of architecture at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is coeditor with Ronald Knapp of the series Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture, published by University of Hawai'i Press.