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

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Wolfrum, Sophie [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Basel : Birkh�auser, [2018]Copyright date: �2018Description: 1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9783035615784 (e-book)

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Porous city : from metaphor to urban agenda.DDC classification:

711.4 23

LOC classification:

HT166 .P676 2018

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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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