Urban Space and Structures

This first volume in the Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies series is a compilation outlining the growth of research work in the early 1970s.

Leslie Martin (Edited by), Lionel March (Author)

9780521099349, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 May 1975

282 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.42 kg

This is a digitally reprinted edition of Urban Space and Structures, first published in 1972. This first volume in the Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies series is a compilation outlining the growth of a particular line of research work which was taking place at the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies in Cambridge at the time. It attempted to understand some of the factors which, at a theoretical level, condition the range of choices that are available, whether in a building, the nodal point in a city or the complete urban system.

Part I. Explorations: Introduction
1. The grid as generator Leslie Martin
2. Speculations Leslie Martin, Lionel March and others
3. Elementary models of built forms Lionel March
4. The use of models in planning and the architectural design process Nicholas Bullock, Peter Dickens and Philip Steadman
Part II. Activities, Space and Location: Introduction
5. A theoretical model for university planning Nicholas Bullock, Peter Dickens and Philip Steadman
6. The modelling of day to day activities Nicholas Bullock, Peter Dickens and Philip Steadman
Part III. Urban Systems
Introduction
7. Models: a discussion Marcial Echenique
8. Development of a model or urban spatial structure David Crowther and Marcial Echenique
9. A structural comparison of three generations of New Towns Marcial Echenique, David Crowther and Walton Lindsay
Afterword
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]