{"product_id":"finding-lost-space-isbn-9780471289562","title":"Finding Lost Space","description":"The problem of \"lost space,\" or the inadequate use of space, afflicts most urban centers today. The automobile, the effects of the Modern Movement in architectural design, urban-renewal and zoning policies, the dominance of private over public interests, as well as changes in land use in the inner city have resulted in the loss of values and meanings that were traditionally associated with urban open space. This text offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the crisis of the contemporary city and the means by which this crisis can be addressed. Finding Lost Space traces leading urban spatial design theories that have emerged over the past eighty years: the principles of Sitte and Howard; the impact of and reactions to the Functionalist movement; and designs developed by Team 10, Robert Venturi, the Krier brothers, and Fumihiko Maki, to name a few. In addition to discussions of historic precedents, contemporary approaches to urban spatial design are explored. Detailed case studies of Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; Goteborg, Sweden; and the Byker area of Newcastle, England demonstrate the need for an integrated design approach--one that considers figure-ground, linkage, and place theories of urban spatial design. These theories and their individual strengths and weaknesses are defined and applied in the case studies, demonstrating how well they operate in different contexts. This text will prove invaluable for students and professionals in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. Finding Lost Space is going to be a primary text for the urban designers of the next generation. It is the first book in the field to absorb the lessons of the postmodern reaction, including the work of the Krier brothers and many others, and to integrate these into a coherent theory and set of design guidelines. Without polemics, Roger Trancik addresses the biggest issue in architecture and urbanism today: how can we regain in our shattered cities a public realm that is made of firmly shaped, coherently linked, humanly meaningful urban spaces? Robert Campbell, AIA Architect and architecture critic Boston Globe \u003cp\u003ePreface Vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments Ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 What Is Lost Space? 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Problem Of Urban Design Today 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLost Space Defined 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Causes 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRedesigning Lost Space 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Development Of Twentieth-Century Space  21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFunctionalism 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Functionalist Grid  30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical Reactions 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhysical Manifestations 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Urban Space Precedents 60\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHard Space      61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoft Space        86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Three Theories Of Urban Spatial Design     97\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFigure-Ground Theory  98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLinkage Theory 106                                                                                                                                 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlace Theory  112                                                                                                                                   \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Case Studies 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Study 1: Boston, Massachusetts 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Study 2: Washington, D.C. 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Study 3: Göteborg, Sweden 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Study 4: Byker, Newcastle, England          208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Toward An Integrated Approach To Urban Design 219\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrinciples 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Designer’s Role 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Design Process 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward The Year 2000 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex   242\u003c\/p\u003e Roger Trancik has twenty years of professional and academic experience in urban design. He has held professorships at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and is currently a professor in the Cornell University Landscape Architecture Program. He is a Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and maintains an international consulting practice in Ithaca, New York.  The problem of \"lost space,\" or the inadequate use of space, afflicts most urban centers today. The automobile, the effects of the Modern Movement in architectural design, urban-renewal and zoning policies, the dominance of private over public interests, as well as changes in land use in the inner city have resulted in the loss of values and meanings that were traditionally associated with urban open space. This text offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the crisis of the contemporary city and the means by which this crisis can be addressed. Finding Lost Space traces leading urban spatial design theories that have emerged over the past eighty years: the principles of Sitte and Howard; the impact of and reactions to the Functionalist movement; and designs developed by Team 10, Robert Venturi, the Krier brothers, and Fumihiko Maki, to name a few. In addition to discussions of historic precedents, contemporary approaches to urban spatial design are explored. Detailed case studies of Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; Göteborg, Sweden; and the Byker area of Newcastle, England demonstrate the need for an integrated design approach—one that considers figure-ground, linkage, and place theories of urban spatial design. These theories and their individual strengths and weaknesses are defined and applied in the case studies, demonstrating how well they operate in different contexts. This text will prove invaluable for students and professionals in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. Finding Lost Space is going to be a primary text for the urban designers of the next generation. It is the first book in the field to absorb the lessons of the postmodern reaction, including the work of the Krier brothers and many others, and to integrate these into a coherent theory and set of design guidelines. Without polemics, Roger Trancik addresses the biggest issue in architecture and urbanism today: how can we regain in our shattered cities a public realm that is made of firmly shaped, coherently linked, humanly meaningful urban spaces? 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