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A Balance-Sheet of the City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Joseph Rykwert
Joseph Rykwert*
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University of Cambridge
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Should the city be read as a negative or a positive? Is it a tissue of buildings, separated by streets and squares, or is it a series of public spaces: streets, squares, gardens, parks—between which buildings rise as enclaves of private and semi-private volume?

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 31 , Issue 121 , March 1983 , pp. 35 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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Bibliograpiiy

Choay, Françoise, L'Urbanisme, Paris, Seuil, 1965 and The City, Problems of Planning (ed. Stewart, Murray) Penguin, Harmcndsworth, 1972.Google Scholar
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Die Autogerechte Stadt was devised by Hans Bernhard Reichow (Ravensburg, Otto Maier,) in 1959.Google Scholar
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On the Buchanan approach see Traffic in Towns (commonly known as the Buchanan Report) London, HMSO, 1963.Google Scholar