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Alex Lehnerer Designed by Joost Grootens English 272 pp / 240 x 175 mm / hardcover price € 29.50 ISBN 978 90 6450 666 6 published 2009, available |
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| Grand Urban Rules is a tribute to the city’s will to form, manifest in its vast number of steering regimes. The book contains a total of 115 significant ingredients for the Grand Projet 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. Made possible by the Netherlands Architecture Fund. |
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| The substantive chapters provide a lively, detailed and sometimes amusing history of zoning in the US. 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, February 2010 | ||
| Grand Urban Rules är en mycket slagkraftig bok, inte minst gäller detta de 115 kortfattade stadsbyggnadsregler som formuleras i bokens inledande kapitel. | ||
| Johan Janssen in Arkitektur #3, 2010 | ||
| Wer sich durch das Buch gearbeitet hat, wird feststellen, dass die Lektüre kurzweiliger war, als das Thema erwarten lässt. | ||
| Eleonore Harmel in Bauwelt, June 2010 | ||
| Geeft op een leesbare en onderhoudende manier inzicht in hoe regelgeving een antwoord kan geven op stedenbouwkundige vraagstukken. | ||
| Vitale stad, February 2010 | ||
| De casestudy’s bewijzen dat het boek hoe dan ook een onmisbaar naslagwerk voor elke stedenbouwkundige is. | ||
| Robert-Jan de Kort at Archined.nl, 7th January 2010 | ||
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