Transcending Type: Designing for Urban Complexity

David Grahame Shane, the author of a major new study Urban Design Since 1945: A Global Perspective, looks at type with the benefit of historical hindsight. Warning against its potential inflexibility and its use over the centuries as a reductive instrument in city creation, he is insistent that type...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Architectural design 2011-01, Vol.81 (1), p.128-134
1. Verfasser:	Shane, David Grahame
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	2000 2007 2008 29 Enero Estate in Caracas Architectural Association (AA) Architecture barriadas Belgium Business Bay Three project Carlos Villaneuva Chandigarh Chinese Special Economic Zone Christopher Alexander Cities In Evolution City Machine City of Faith climate changes Complexity Deformation desa-kota (village-city) Dubai El Lissitzsky's Skyhooks workers' clubs project favelas 'megacity' Foreign Office Architects (FOA) generative typologies Good City Form Hanoi University and ASRO team (University of Leuven Housing by the People hybridity of type Jim Stirling Jim Stirling, Christopher Alexander John F Turner Kevin Lynch Le Corbusier Lucio de Costa's plan for Brasilia massive population migrations Milton Keynes New Town Monica Pidgeon open systems Otto Koenigsburger Patrick Geddes Phylogenesis: FOA's Ark Prime Minister Nehru Proposal for Vinh-Lam Waterfront Project raised raised, urban islands Regional Border Drawing Reiser + Umemoto Reiser + Umemoto, Business Bay Three project, Dubai, 2007 Richard Llewellyn-Davies river deltas SEZ Shenzhen Institute of Urban Design and Research Soviet typologies Teddy Cruz Teddy Cruz, Regional Border Drawing, US–Mexico border, 2008 UN Habitat 1 UN-HABITAT UN‐HABITAT, Hanoi University and ASRO team (University of Leuven, Belgium), Proposal for Vinh‐Lam Waterfront Project, Vietnam, 2000 urban islands Urbanus US-Mexico border Vietnam Warning Weeks and partners
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Zusammenfassung:	David Grahame Shane, the author of a major new study Urban Design Since 1945: A Global Perspective, looks at type with the benefit of historical hindsight. Warning against its potential inflexibility and its use over the centuries as a reductive instrument in city creation, he is insistent that type should only be applied if deformed to respond to the informal patchwork of hybrid urban conditions.
ISSN:	0003-8504 1554-2769 1554-2769
DOI:	10.1002/ad.1197