
Squares
Urban Spaces in Europe
Sophie Wolfrum(Editor)
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 26. November 2014
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-3-03821-649-0 (ISBN)
Description
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, shaping of focus point and of edges like surfaces and materials? How do they contribute to a character of urban space with which residents can identify? Comparing historical examples with current designs aids one in visualizing spatial effect. Similar to a floor planmanualfor buildings,Squares allows the user to evaluate spatial conditions for movement and rest based on comparable existing urban squares. The book offers the planner a comparative example for most conditions (shape, size, location, topography, and so on). Seventy European urban squares are presented and explained with the most important characteristics in a consistent manner in as-built plan, ground plan, section, and axonometric projection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
380 Abbildungen
380 b/w ill.
Dimensions
Height: 25 cm
Width: 30 cm
Weight
2093 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-03821-649-0 (9783038216490)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
12/2014
1st Edition
Birkhäuser
€79.95
Available for download
Person
Sophie Wolfrum, Professorin für Städtebau und Regionalplanung an der Fakultät für Architektur der Technischen Universität München.