Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities: From 1800 to Present Day

ISBN-13: 9781138189942 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 348 str.

Katy Chey

Opis

Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities compares multi-dwelling unit housing typologies developed in ten major cities on three continents during the last two hundred years to ground you so you can improve your own designs.

Spis treści

1. Overview: Multi-Unit Dwelling Housing Typologies 2. London: 1850 to the Industrial Revolution. Housing Type 1: Back-to-Back. Housing Type 2: London Tenement 3. Paris: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century. Housing Type 3: Paris Infill 4. New York: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century. Housing Type 4: New York Tenement. Housing Type 5: New York Infill 5. Berlin: 1920 to Present. Housing Type 6: Berlin Perimeter Block. Housing Type 7: Block-edge. Housing Type 8: Berlin Linear Block 6. Hong Kong: Late Nineteenth Century to 1965. Housing Type 9: Hong Kong Linear Block 7. Amsterdam: 1990 to Present. Housing Type 10: Solitaire. Housing Type 11: Amsterdam Perimeter Block 8. Tokyo: 2000 to Present. Housing Type 12: Tokyo Infill 9. Beijing and Shanghai: 2000 to Present. Housing Type 13: Space-enclosing Structure 10. Toronto: 2000 to Present. Housing Type 14: High-Rise Tower. Conclusion. Bibliography. Image Credits. Index

O autorze

Katy Chey is an architect living, working, and teaching in Toronto. She lives in a multi-unit housing dwellingin the city.