Volume 4 of the four-volume work Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst offers examples of different types of streets and their characteristics as a guide to designing them: avenues, target buildings, bends, and arcades, as well as their breadth and overall visual impact. It depicts street spaces in Augsburg, Bad Arolsen, Bad T lz, Berlin, Bremen, Chemnitz, Dinkelsb hl, Dortmund, Dresden, D sseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg, Halle (Saale), Hamburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Landshut, Leipzig, Lindau, Munich, M nster, Potsdam, Regensburg, Speyer, Stralsund, Wiesbaden, and Wismar for comparison. Featuring an essay by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani.
Now available in a student edition, the Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst is a compendium of essential urban design expertise. Using 150 examples from over 70 German cities, it illustrates, analyzes, and compares a wide range of urban spaces, courtyards, squares, and streets. Editor Christoph M ckler builds on the textbooks of the early twentieth century by Cornelius Gurlitt, Raymond Unwin, and Josef St bben and offers a well-grounded framework for city planning.
The student edition is available as a set consisting of volumes 1-4. The individual volumes can also be purchased separately.
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