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cito da amazon.
la descrizione è già sufficiente per proporre l’acquisto! (per altro è un libro che fa parte della ricerca attuale di diversi dei professori della nostra facoltà -lombardi, lami ecc.)

"Cities and Forms, On Sustainable Urbanism probes the crucial issue of the shape to give to sustainable cities in the future. It unfolds a rich mosaic of two thousand years of urban history in the East and in the West through 1,200 drawings, city plans and photographs, all of which is correlated with thousands of results of original analyses for a wide range of urban textures, from Siena and Venice to New York, Brasilia, Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai. Cities and Forms also features a detailed comparative study of Haussmanian Paris and Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, and an in-depth analysis of Chinese cities. This book provides a measurable scientific dimension to such essential notions of sustainable urbanism as density, connectivity, functional mix and accessibility, by exploring the qualities of historic urban fabrics. "

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