Stadsnatuur maken is een inspiratie- en voorbeeldboek voor natuurinclusiefontwerpen in de Noordwest-Europese stad. Het roept op tot het integreren van natuur in het ontwerp van gebouwen en stedelijke buitenruimten en het geeft daarbij praktische voorbeelden en ontwerphandreikingen.

De stad is een rijke biotoop met een grote biodiversiteit. Veel dier- en plantensoorten komen inmiddels meer in de stad voor dan in het buitengebied. De auteurs zien natuur als een integraal onderdeel van het sted...

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people.

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This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recentavant garde.

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An indispensable tool for the initial stages of designing and planning a building project

This new edition of the classic bestselling text provides, in one concise volume, the essential information needed as the basis for the more detailed design and development of any building project. Organized largely by building type, it covers the planning criteria and considerations of function and location--and with over 6200 diagrams, it provides a mass of data on spatial requirements.

Most of the fea...