Porous city : from metaphor to urban agenda / editors Sophia Wolfrum, [and six others].

Contributor(s): Wolfrum, Sophie [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basel : Birkhauser, [2018]Copyright date: 2018Description: 1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783035615784Subject(s): City planning | Sociology, UrbanGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Porous city : from metaphor to urban agenda.DDC classification: 711.4 LOC classification: HT166 | .P676 2018Online resources: Click to View Summary: What is the porous city? How could porosity become an urban concept? Well-known authors from the worlds of architecture, urbanism, and landscape design embark on a search for new concepts for a life-enhancing city, with reference to this enigmatic term. The term refers to the overlaying and interweaving of spaces and structures, to urban textures and their architectural properties and qualities -- to cities with radically mixed urban functions.
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What is the porous city? How could porosity become an urban concept? Well-known authors from the worlds of architecture, urbanism, and landscape design embark on a search for new concepts for a life-enhancing city, with reference to this enigmatic term. The term refers to the overlaying and interweaving of spaces and structures, to urban textures and their architectural properties and qualities -- to cities with radically mixed urban functions.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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