Description:
Diversity and density in housing today
Accomodation of diversity and the creation of
urban density are a focus of world-wide building and planning activities
today. This book combines the architectural and urban scales to
demonstrate that it is a specific quality, urban intensity, which
determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of
housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are
created. Comparisons with historical models and critical appraisals
based on the authors' unique standing give ample information on the pros
and cons of major types of housing, their pitfalls and successful
examples. Newly created sets of drawings, from floor plans to
spectacular 3D aerial views of the buildings in their urban contexts,
accompany each of the more than twenty case studies that are described
and analyzed in detail. The approach taken here relates to many pressing
issues in contemporary housing, including the avoidance of urban
sprawl, the revival of city centers and the ongoing search for
innovative housing types.
- A qualitative approach to diversity and density in housing
- A concept that unites architectural and urban design
- A wide range of original drawings of benchmark case studies