Cities Without Cities
Subtitle: Between Place and World, Space and Time, Town and Country
Publisher: Spon Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780203380581
Subjects: Urbanization; Germany
Description: This book investigates the social, economic, environmental and formal characteristics of today's built environment. Providing a better understanding of this new type of urban form and argues for a change in planning sytems.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword to the English edition; Foreword; Acknowledgements; The living space of the majority of mankind: an anonymous space with no visual quality; An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt; The organisation of everyday living space; The Zwischenstadt as a focus for design; Perspectives for a new form of regional planning; Postscript to the second edition: the city in the Second Modern Age; Postscript to the third edition: on dealing with uncertainty in urban development; Notes; Index.