Basics of Urbanism
Urban design today is facing a multitude of challenges. Using 12 key terms, this book connects these challenges to projects in this field. It introduces concepts. presents possible solutions, and describes implementation processes. A special focus is put on the interaction of the built environment with living systems — an approach that is slowly gaining acceptance within the urban design community and that is setting aside a primarily building-oriented practice in favour of an increased appreciation of public space.
Basics of Urbanism defines and illustrates parameters with a clearly territorial approach to urban design. Space between buildings is treated as an essential structure for environmental and social change within small-scale neighbourhoods and blocks, as well as at the level districts and even entire cities. This approach includes forward-thinking temporal aspects as well as the implementation of existing resources in the creation of new spatial qualities.
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Aglaée Degros is an architect and urban designer, and a founding principal of Brussels-based design firm Artgineering. She is also director of and a professor at the Institute of Urban Design at Technische Universität Graz.
Anna Maria Bagarić, Sabine Bauer, and Radostina Radulova-Stahmer are teaching and research assistants at the Institute of Urbanism, Technische Universität Graz.
Mario Stefan is an architect with Graz-based studio Nussmüller Architekten.
Eva Schwab is a landscape designer and deputy director of the Institute of Urban Design at Technische Universität Graz.