Overview
- Highlights the importance and use of public spaces in cities
- Discusses how technology and culture influence the rules that shape cities through history
- Advocates for a walkable city served by high quality public transport following the Japanese experience
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology (BRIEFSARCHIDE)
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Table of contents(12 chapters)
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Pablo Guillen
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Western Sydney University, Westmead, Australia
Urša Komac
About the authors
Ursa Komac is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Technology and the Director of Academic Programs in Architecture at the Western Sydney University. Her research deals with architecture and the city, with a focus on public space and heritage. She holds a PhD from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. She published a book on Bogdan Bogdanovic (joint with Pablo Guillen). Recently she was a Visiting Research Fellow at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: City Form, Economics and Culture
Book Subtitle: For the Architecture of Public Space
Authors: Pablo Guillen, Urša Komac
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5741-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5739-2Published: 31 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5741-5Published: 30 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2199-580X
Series E-ISSN: 2199-5818
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 81
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Civil Engineering, Human Geography, Economic Geography