Site matters : design concepts, histories, and strategies / edited by Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn.

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: xxix, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415949750
9780415949750
0415949769
9780415949767

Other title:

Design concepts, histories, and strategies

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DDC classification:

720.28 22

LOC classification:

NA2540.5 .S58 2005

Contents:

Around the corner : a photo essay / Lucy R. Lippard -- Claiming the site : evolving social-legal conceptions of ownership and property / Harvey M. Jacobs -- From place to site : negotiating narrative complexity / Robert A. Beauregard -- Ground work / Robin Dripps -- Site citations : the grounds of modern landscape architecture / Elizabeth Meyer -- Shifting sites / Kristina Hill -- Contested contexts / Sandy Isenstadt -- The suppressed site : revealing the influence of site on two purist works / Wendy Redfield -- Neighborhoods apart : site/non-sight and suburban apartments / Paul Mitchell Hess -- Study areas, sites, and the geographic approach to public action / Peter Marcuse -- Defining urban sites / Andrea Kahn -- High-performance sites / Carol J. Burns.

Summary: "Site Matters is the first comprehensive theoretical treatment of a crucial concept in urban design, planning, and architecture -- "site." The way that planners and designers have dealt with the term over the years has changed dramatically, yet little has been written on it. Initially, it simply referred the actual physical area in which a building was erected or a delimited space planned. Over the past century, though, it has gradually become a much more complicated concept, referring on occasion to the immediate surroundings of a parcel and on other occasions as part of a broader geographical complex in which different sectors interact with each other. And most recently, the site has come to be understood as a component of broader ecosystems, where the site and the broader system work upon each other. Bringing together some of the leading lights in the design and planning field, Site Matters will be essential for today's planners, designers, and architects, all of whom must wrestle with this concept."--Publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	720.28 SIT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A432202B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Site Matters is the first comprehensive theoretical treatment of a crucial concept in urban design, planning, and architecture -- "site." The way that planners and designers have dealt with the term over the years has changed dramatically, yet little has been written on it. Initially, it simply referred the actual physical area in which a building was erected or a delimited space planned. Over the past century, though, it has gradually become a much more complicated concept, referring on occasion to the immediate surroundings of a parcel and on other occasions as part of a broader geographical complex in which different sectors interact with each other. And most recently, the site has come to be understood as a component of broader ecosystems, where the site and the broader system work upon each other. Bringing together some of the leading lights in the design and planning field, Site Matters will be essential for today's planners, designers, and architects, all of whom must wrestle with this concept."--Publisher description.

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