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Community Design and the Culture of Cities

The Crossroad and the Wall

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Paperback | 29 April 1991

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Having perceived a widespread failure of most community-scale plans, Eduardo Lozano has created a large and humane vision for community design, geared towards urban planners and designers, as well as those concerned with the communities of the future. Lozano strives to unify theory and practice, seeing that design at community scale is a relatively new responsibility for professionals and seeing the need for an awareness of the systemic nature of urban design. He also highlights relevant lessons from historical examples in order to rediscover the community design m©tier forgotten after the Industrial Revolution. The author relies on interdisciplinary studies, drawing from biology, ecology, and political science, as well as from history for his fascinating study. Throughout the book there is an emphasis on the interrelationship of design and culture-society, technology, institutions, and values. There is also a stress on the need for an agenda for political and cultural change. The audience for Community Design and the Culture of Cities goes beyond designers and planners to include urban sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and political scientists.

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"Very well written...it presents its thesis on the need for interdisciplinary collaboration, conceptual as well as practical, with clarity and verve." Suzanne Keller, Contemporary Sociology "In fact, this reviewer would rate this book as one of the better illustrated volumes about cities he has examined recently." John Hiltner, Journal of Cultural Geography "This is a book of dedication and ambition." Landscape Journal "Lozano provides a very thorough, learned presentation of this approach to spatial design...The book is well-written and uses many pertinent, comparative examples." George Hemmens, Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Prologue

Cities today
The traditions in community design, or the professional as a newcomer
Urban form as pattern, pattern as combination of typologies

Below the urban surface, or how urban systems, organised in complex hierarchies, are the roots of urban form
Cities in evolution, or how growth and change guide urban form in time
Urban scale, or how urban form, size and function are interrelated through growth

Land use in cities, or how segregation and homogeneity have threatened the social ecology of urban areas
Density in communities, or the most important factor in building up urbanity
Distribution in cities, or a key to reconstituting the culture of cities

The design roots in traditional settlements
The pluralistic form of traditional communities: combination and interface
Visual phenomena and movement through traditional settlements: orientation and variety

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Community Design and the Culture of Cities

The Crossroad and the Wall

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