Community Design and the Culture of Cities: The Crossroad and the Wall

by Eduardo E. Lozano

Book Overview

Having perceived a widespread failure of most community-scale plans, Eduardo Lozano has created a large and humane vision for community design, geared towards urban planners and designers, as well as those concerned with the communities of the future. Lozano strives to unify theory and practice, seeing that design at community scale is a relatively new responsibility for professionals and seeing the need for an awareness of the systemic nature of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521389798
• ISBN13: 9780521389792
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent for planners seeking community design theory.

This book provides the planner and architect with community based design theory for large urban areas, or small communities. Lozano links the historical roots of communities to problems with contemporary design, and ways to conduct design analysis. Contemporary urban design dysfunction can be described and addressed!