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How do we value historic urban landscape in order to intervene within it as designers? This is the central question posed in this volume, and is tackled by its 16 essays which investigate different facets of value as bases of building and design practices on a range of spatial scales and brought about by a variety of historical circumstances. While the modernist metanarrative of universalism propagated functionalism and, through it, biological and psychological motives of design activity, contemporary building practices are based on more complex and diverse patterns of values that range from c

Title The importance of place : values and building practices in the historic urban landscape / Amir Pasić, Borut Juvanec, José Luis Moro.
Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Creation Date 2016
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Extent 1 online resource (248 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 997010720931805171
MARC RECORDS
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