Foundations of Urban Design - Smets, Marcel (New York; Barcelona : Actar Publishers : Public Space, 2022)
The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. Still, we are warned, ‘the presented antagonisms are not a priori in opposition, but rather complementary. (provided by publisher)
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