Site Matters Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies

Name: Site Matters Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies
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ISBN: 9780415949767

ISBN-10: 0415949769

ISBN-13: 9780415949767

Edition: 2005

Authors: Andrea Kahn, Carol Burns

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Site Matters is the first comprehensive theoretical treatment of a crucial concept in urban design, planning, and architecture -- "site." The way that planners and designers have dealt with the term over the years has changed dramatically, yet little has been written on it. Initially, it simply referred the actual physical area in which a building was erected or a delimited space planned. Over the past century, though, it has gradually become a much more complicated concept, referring on occasion to the immediate surroundings of a parcel and on other occasions as part of a broader geographical complex in which different sectors interact with each other. And most recently, the site has come…

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.06" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Why site matters




Around the corner : a photo essay




Claiming the site : evolving social-legal conceptions of ownership and property




From place to site : negotiating narrative complexity




Groundwork




Site citations : the grounds of modern landscape architecture




Shifting sites




Contested contexts




The suppressed site : revealing the influence of site on two purist works




Neighborhoods apart : site/non-sight and suburban apartments




Study areas, sites, and the geographic approach to public action




Defining urban sites




High-performance sites



Engaging the field