Overview
In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop over time, Peter Bosselmann offers a stimulating guidebook for students and professionals engaged in urban design, planning, and architecture. By looking through Bosselmann’s eyes (aided by his analysis of numerous color photos and illustrations) readers will learn to “see” cities anew. His hope is that, with the fresh vision he offers, readers will be empowered to offer inventive new solutions to familiar urban problems.
Full Product Details
Author: Peter Bosselmann
Publisher: Island Press
Imprint: Island Press
Edition: None ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 20.40cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.885kg
ISBN: 9781597264808
ISBN 10: 1597264806
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 26 November 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
Bosselmann brings firsthand knowledge of cities worldwide to the fore in this rich comaprative study. Urban Transformation deserves to become a basic guidebook for architects, landscape architects, and planners, but no less so for decision makers and for citizen activists whose vigilance is often crucial to the desirability of place. -- R. Longstreth, George Washington University --R. Longsteth Choice (06/01/2009)
Bosselmann brings firsthand knowledge of cities worldwide to the fore in this rich comaprative study...Urban Transformation deserves to become a basic guidebook for architects, landscape architects, and planners, but no less so for decision makers and for citizen activists whose vigilance is often crucial to the desirability of place. --Choice
""Bosselmann brings firsthand knowledge of cities worldwide to the fore in this rich comaprative study...Urban Transformation deserves to become a basic guidebook for architects, landscape architects, and planners, but no less so for decision makers and for citizen activists whose vigilance is often crucial to the desirability of place."" -- ""Choice""
Author Information
Peter Bosselmann is professor of urban design at the University of California, Berkeley. International teaching positions include universities in Europe, Australia, and Asia. He directed design workshops in China, Vietnam, Mexico, Italy, and France and was commissioned to work on urban design plans in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, and Tokyo. In 2007 he established an urban research laboratory in Milan, the fourth such laboratory that he modeled after the well-known Berkeley Environmental Simulation Laboratory. His previous publications include the 1997 book Representation of Places.
