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GRAND URBAN RULES - paperback edition | Alex Lehnerer, Joost Grootens (design) | 9789462080546 | nai010

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GRAND URBAN RULES

Author:Alex Lehnerer

Publisher:nai010

ISBN: 978-94-6208-054-6

  • Paperback
  • English
  • 272 Pages
  • Dec 6, 2013

The book 'Grand Urban Rules' is a tribute to the city’s will to form, as shown through its vast number of steering regimes. The book contains a total of 115 significant ingredients for the Grand Project of our contemporary metropolis. Not always positive but always powerful, these rules are the inverted, abstracted and extracted image of a city’s actual situation.

Setting standards is first and foremost a cultural act. We read cities by their rules! Rules link the physical with the social city, connecting quality with quantity and latent characteristics to manifest ones. Thereby and almost unnoticed, they have become design instruments. In fact, regarding rules as tools offers a valuable (urban) design attitude – departing from an approach that wants to control everything, and moving towards a non-fatalistic form of control between freedom and coercion.

‘The book does us the great service of drawing to our attention the apparatus of rules, that invisible armature around which our cities are spun, which has rarely been the subject of such a wide-ranging examination.’ — Matthew Hardy in RIBA Journal

The book 'Grand Urban Rules' is a tribute to the city’s will to form, as shown through its vast number of steering regimes. The book contains a total of 115 significant ingredients for the Grand Project of our contemporary metropolis. Not always positive but always powerful, these rules are the inverted, abstracted and extracted image of a city’s actual situation.

Setting standards is first and foremost a cultural act. We read cities by their rules! Rules link the physical with the social city, connecting quality with quantity and latent characteristics to manifest ones. Thereby and almost unnoticed, they have become design instruments. In fact, regarding rules as tools offers a valuable (urban) design attitude – departing from an approach that wants to control everything, and moving towards a non-fatalistic form of control between freedom and coercion.

‘The book does us the great service of drawing to our attention the apparatus of rules, that invisible armature around which our cities are spun, which has rarely been the subject of such a wide-ranging examination.’ — Matthew Hardy in RIBA Journal

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