Atrandant prarastąją miesto erdvę: urbanistinio projektavimo teorijos

by Roger Trancik

Book by Trancik, Roger

Genres: Architecture, Urban Design, Urban, Urbanism, Urban Planning

240 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

Find your lost spaces.      "Finding lost spaces: theories of urban design" is a classic, an old book on how to re-integrate the segregated open spaces from the urban fabric. It begins with the assumption that architecture cannot solve the problem of lost spaces and to solve them there must be a set of "New Rules" to order them all.
     The book starts with a definition of lost spaces and their causes, and then blames it all on modernists and their attitude toward public space. It then presents three clear and distinct theories of urban space (which I found the most useful part of the book). the three theories being the figure-context theory (based on mass/space or positive/negative dichotomy of planning), the linkage theory (considering the activities and circulation of people in the public sphere of cities), and the place theory (representing cultural and social context). the last pages of the book are filled with a few case studies to illustrate Trancik's points, which you can skip after the cases of Boston and Washington D.C..
     Overall the book is worth reading if you are a planner, or you work on the large-scale. I personally think that most lost spaces can be found with small, cute ignition of public and private sector coupled with a little architectural creativity and do not need a philosophical approach.

[Chris Hamby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can be overly prescriptive (should every city look like Italian cities?), but great guide to what makes successful urban space.

[Sura · Rating 4 out of 5]

“ designing is nothing more than finding out what the person and object want to be, form then makes itself .. there is really no need for invention- you must just listen carefully “

[Boghel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The discourse is bout the impact of modernism which influence architecture and urban planning in the 20th century. Relative to definition of space, scale, connection and meaning of place.