Title: Community design and the culture of cities : the crossroad and the wall /
Authors: Lozano, Eduardo E.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: City planning; Neighborhoods.; Architects and community; Community development, Urban.
Contents: 1. Cities today -- 2. Traditions in community design : or the professional as a newcomer -- 3. Urban patterns : or urban form as a combination of typologies -- 4. Below the urban surface : or how urban systems, organized in complex hierarchies, are the roots of urban form -- 5. Cities in evolution : or how growth and change guide urban form in time -- 6. Urban scale : or how urban form, size, and function are interrelated through growth -- 7. Land use in cities : or how segregation and homogeneity have threatened the social ecology of urban areas -- 8. Density in communities : or the most important factor in building urbanity -- 9. Distribution in cities : or a key to reconstituting the culture of cities -- 10. Morphology : or the roots of design in traditional settlements -- 11. Pluralistic form of traditional communities : or combination and interface -- 12. Visual phenomena and movement : or orientation, variety, and symbolism.