Urban Squares
Subtitle: Recent European Promenades, Squares, and City Centres
Contributors: Topos (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhauser; Birkhauser Verlag
Published: May 1, 2002
Language: ger; eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9783764366704
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning; c 1990 to c 2000; Landscape; Architecture; Europe; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture / General; Architecture / Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Freiraumplanung; Plätze; Stadtplanung; Urban Squares
First sentence: Why should urban planning remain an abstract science, only developing a city and its districts schematically, while another discipline, namely architecture, fills in the schemata with buildings and leaves the rest, that is, the open space, over to the engineers to squeeze in conduits and roads?