The Urban Towers Handbook Eric Firley and Julie Gimbal with Philippe Honnorat
For well over a century, the modern skyscraper has provided an ingenious solution to high-density living and working - accommodating the greatest number of people in a building with a minimal footprint. In the contemporary context of drastic urban growth, its role can only gain in importance. The question is how to avoid past mistakes and how to conceive the tower as a positive component of an existing or newly created urban fabric. In a thoroughly analytical and comparative way The Urban Towers...
The Urban Towers Handbook Eric Firley and Julie Gimbal with Philippe Honnorat
For well over a century, the modern skyscraper has provi...
A highly illustrated reference tool, this handbook provides comparative visual analysis of major urban extensions and masterplans around the world. It places an important new emphasis on the processes and structures that influence urban form, highlighting the significant impact that public or private landownership, management and funding might have on shaping a particular project. Each of the book's 20 subjects is rigorously analysed through original diagrams, scale drawings and descriptive texts, which are complemented by key statistics and colour photography. The case studies are...
A highly illustrated reference tool, this handbook provides comparative visual analysis of major urban extensions and masterplans around the world....
