Access, Property and American Urban Space

ISBN-13: 9781138546370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 260 str.

M. Gordon Brown

Opis

This volume examines how the pervasive changes in the relation between private and public property have impacted the spatial form of American cities. In addition to linking spatial patterns and economic costs, the book shows how to quantify these patterns and link them to congestion and transaction costs. At a more fundamental conceptual level, it proposes an original and simple theory explaining the genesis of urban spatial form in the Fertile Crescent that links to the form of American urban space as conceptualized by the Founding Fathers.

Spis treści

1. Stagnation  2. Intentions and Disconnections  3. The Road to Congestion  4. Networks, Complexity, Models and Measures  5. Quantifying Vehicle and Pedestrian Access  6. Space and Property: Public and Private  7. Historic and Prehistoric Origins of American Urban Space  8. History of a Regime Shift: Two Centuries of American Moral Design  9. Structures, Powers, Mechanisms and Tendencies

O autorze

M. Gordon Brown is Principal of Space Analytics in Wauconda (Chicago) where he consults and does expert witness work on the built environment. He was a professor of architecture at three major American universities and head of the Real Estate Program at Eindhoven University of Technology.