Grand urban rules
By: Alex Lehnerer
Contributors: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Departement Architektur
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: nai010 Publishers; nai010 publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9789462080546
Subjects: City planning; Imaginary places
Description: "Grand Urban Rules is a tribute to the city's will to form, as shown through its vast number of steering regimes. The book contains a total of 115 significant ingredients for the Grand Project of our contemporary metropolis. Not always positive but always powerful, these rules are the inverted, abstracted and extracted image of a city's actual situation. Setting standards is first and foremost a cultural act. We read cities by their rules! Rules link the physical with the social city, connecting quality with quantity and latent characteristics to manifest ones. Thereby and almost unnoticed, they have become design instruments. In fact, regarding rules as tools offers a valuable (urban) design attitude -- departing from an approach that wants to control everything, and moving towards a non-fatalistic form of control between freedom and coercion."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "The content of this book is based on research conducted at ETH Zürich, Department of Architecture."

Previous edition: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-270).
Table of contents: title: The city of Averuni and its code : General declarations, motive ; Superordinate land use rules ; District-related land use rules ; Streetscape rules ; Neighborhood rules ; Plot/block rules ; Building rules; title: Rules as tools: a token of affection; title: The tightrope walk of exercising control over private property; title: Power is nothing without control : The difficult act of setting thresholds ; Attempts and realizations of control; title: Codified aesthetics : Control and (visual) order ; Downtown's will to form; title: Connected isolation: neighborhood : Prologue: Loss of autonomy: a neighborhood paradigm ; Immaterial intruder: the right to light ; How big is your neighborhood; title: Codes, conventions and maxims: official and informal regimes, rules of place in 1960s New York; title: Within or without : Automatic inclusion: externalities ; Artificial conclusion: plans and special districts; title: Difference and consistency; title: Designed variation; title: Synthesis: a designed conclusion; title: Remote control / Kees Christiaanse; title: The climatic aspect of architecture / Ludger Hovestadt.