Here Sir Terry Farrell, who has built an international career as an architect-planner, encourages other planners and architects to follow the biologists-look at, learn from, and, indeed, admire the nature of the forces that drive the change, and then with humility and respect wo…
Encourages planners and architects to look at, learn from, and, indeed, admire the nature of the forces that drive the change, and then work with them to nudge, anticipate and prepare for where it takes us. The author analyses the notions of urban design and urban evolution and …
Here Sir Terry Farrell, who has built an international career as an architect-planner, encourages other planners and architects to follow the biologists-look at, learn from, and, indeed, admire the nature of the forces that drive the change, and then with humility and respect wo…
Touching the city: thoughts on urban scale
by Makower, Timothy, Allen, Tessa, Lezama, Calver
fromAD primers
Scale in cities is relative and absolute. It has the ability to make us feel at home in the world or alien from it; connected or disconnected. Both large and small scale in cities can be beautiful; both are right, neither is wrong. Whilst accepting that prescription is no answer…
Scale in cities is relative and absolute. It has the ability to make us feel at home in the world or alien from it; connected or disconnected. Both large and small scale in cities can be beautiful; both are right, neither is wrong. Whilst accepting that prescription is no answer…