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What are some good books on architecture and urban planning?

>> No.16159356

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The City in History

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>>16159286
also the city assembled

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>>16159286
Liveblog contains the architectures of Baltimore and New York, FYI

>> No.16159459

The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander
see also his essay https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html

>> No.16159509

>>16159286
Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture by Donald Hoffmann.

>> No.16159546

>>16159286
God damn this is so soulless

>> No.16159556

Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier

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>>16159286
It's kinda funny I just noticed they built exactly such a duoplex 100 meters down the road next my home on an unused plot.

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>>16159286
wrathofgnon has a nice reading list. i dont have access right now, but its a solid list. what ive read personally:

Architecture for Drawing - this is actually a picture book, but it's very cool to flip through and it gives you an intuition for his ideas toward architechture, design, urbanism, etc.

Human Scale Revisited - Honestly, I didn't like it so much but it's still worth a read. It's a screed against our poorly scaled world...most things are too big to allow us to have any proper intuition of it.

Small is Beautiful - so far my favourite book ive read related to urbanism, development, etc. not exactly related to urban planning and architecture but it's a great book.

The City After the Automobile - has a great critique of modern urban planning, architecture and so on. But his ideas are kind of bad. he built pic related

>> No.16160333

bump

>> No.16160360

>>16159765
That building looks cool but I wouldn't want to live there

>> No.16160365

Proof lits full of pseuds. OP asks for a specific topic and the nonreader faggots swarm him with meandering and overgeneral recs.

Fuck you guys and fuck this board.

>> No.16160623

>>16160365
What are your recs, then?

>> No.16160642

>>16160365
how can the name of a book be "meandering"

>> No.16160733

>>16160365
Urban planning & architecture is a very broad category. some of these recs are quite good, ingrate

>> No.16162035

>>16159286
MY

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>>16159546
Shut the fuck up.

The left has plenty of soulless examples as well, Brutalism chief among them.

>> No.16162150

>>16159286
>>16159752
Imagine being indebted for THAT.

>> No.16162161

>>16162084
habitat 67 is one of the truly great brutalist housing complexes though. the apartments are /comfy/, they intentionally filled the place with all kinds of cozy nooks and crannies to hang out it, it wasn't public housing so no poors and you get beautiful river views. it's basically santorini but concrete and in montreal

>> No.16162209

>>16159286
Ok but like... what’s the alternative? What did you expect when you decide to live in the city? I am struggling to understand?

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>>16162084
>Another seething Redditor filtered by brutalist architecture

>> No.16162234

>>16162044
I read Krier's "Architecture of Community" before, it's quite beautiful and interesting.

>> No.16162369

>>16159459
kuk post

>> No.16162392

>>16162084
>Oy vey, it's not architecture unless it has a gabled roof, marble columns, or at least 10 garGOYles.
You're only scared of brutalism because you don't have a soul to conquer the stone with.

>> No.16162415

>>16162209
Im sorry?
are you trying to communicate something?

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>>16162161
Man you weren't kidding, the interiors are great. I still think the exterior is a little too harsh, especially in winter.

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>>16162150
>>16159752
It gets even funnier when you mention that those windows are the bathrooms, meaning you have a street level bathroom with huge windows looking directly onto your street.

>> No.16162630

>>16162461
I like to watch my neighbors walk by when I shit, sue me

>> No.16162727

jane jacobs, inga saffron of the philly inquirer, the New Urbanism blog on the American Conservative

>> No.16163461

>>16162727
>New Urbanism blog on the American Conservative
god what a mouthful of trash

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>> No.16164255

>>16163889
burn the till and the jencks

>> No.16164261

>>16164255
maybe the bachelard

>> No.16164293

>>16159286
LEON KRIER

>> No.16164311

>>16164293
burn him too