Touching the city : thoughts on urban scale /

• Main Author: Makower, Tim (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
• Series: Architectural design primer.
• Subjects: Cities and towns > Case studies.; Architecture > Details > Case studies.; Historic sites > Conservation and restoration > Delaware > Bibliography.; ARCHITECTURE > General.; Architecture > Details.; Cities and towns.; Electronic books.; Case studies.

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, ''getting...