Go BackReconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood: Photographs of drawings
01/01/1996Site plan for a neighborhood in Progresso, in three different versions, which present in a rudimentary form the system of public squares, gardens, and pedestrian streets which could form the hulls of public space.
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The Process of Urban Design and the Formation of Larger Urban Wholes
Theoretical basis and key assumptions for the process of urban growth, tested initially in the San Francisco Waterfront experimental project in 1979, in which the formation of larger urban wholes was highlighted as an overriding rule. This process was further ...
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The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space
Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...