Street-level architecture : the past, present and future of interactive frontages /
This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions of designers and planners, interactive frontages have dwindled over the past century in Europe and North America. This book demonstrates why even our best intention...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2023].
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| Summary: | This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions of designers and planners, interactive frontages have dwindled over the past century in Europe and North America. This book demonstrates why even our best intentions for interactive frontages are currently unable to turn a swelling tide of economic and technological evolution, land consolidation, introversion, stratification and contagious decline. It uses these lessons to offer concrete locational, programming, design and management strategies to maximize street-level interaction and trust between street-level architecture, its inhabitants and the city. This book demonstrates that designers, developers, planners and managers ultimately have to create the right preconditions for inhabitants and passersby to bring frontages to life. These preconditions connect architecture to its urban, social, economical and technological context. Only the right frontage in the right context, with the right design, the right inhabitation and the right attitude to the city will become part of the ecosystem of trust and interaction that supports public life. This book empowers the many participants in this ecosystem to build, inhabit and enjoy truly urbane architecture. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 211 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367486112 0367486113 9780367486105 0367486105 |