Porous city : from metaphor to urban agenda / editors Sophia Wolfrum, [and six others]. - 1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

9783035615784


City planning.
Sociology, Urban.


Electronic books.

HT166 / .P676 2018

711.4