Urban Literacy
Reading and Writing Architecture
by Klaske Havik ; with a foreword by Juhani Pallasmaa

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Editor(s)

Klaske Havik

Publication, year

Rotterdam : nai010 publishers, 2014

Scope

256 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

9789462081215

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Literature offers valuable insights into how people experience, use and imagine places. The literary approach in Urban Literacy stems from criticism of a lack of attention for the above-mentioned aspects in the architectural and urban planning debate. It brings together a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches by means of three literary concepts: description, transcription and prescription. It translates them into the domain of architecture and urban planning. Reading and Writing Architecture concludes with a chapter on the implications for contemporary design practice.

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Location

Cabinet 28 - 6: Culturele benadering van de (stedelijke) ruimte

Extra themes

Architecture and Art

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References