After years of experience in education, research, design and policy, Professor Marcel Smets, former Flemish Government Architect, compiles his insights on the city and urban design in a personal booklet. In his search for the foundations of urban design, Marcel Smets puts forward thirty complementary pairs of concepts. He starts from archetypal settlement forms (ribbon and cluster, ladder and star), typifies morphological categories (street and road, island and archipelago) and highlights changing design processes (creator and curator, growth and improvement). The concept pairs are illustrated with drawings by Heinrich Altenmüller.
This English edition is the fully revised and expanded edition of the previously published book in Dutch and French.
This publication was created with the support of the Flemish Government.
Foundations of Urban Design
144 pages, hardcover
Language: English
Author: Marcel Smets
Translation: Patrick Lennon
Illustrations: Heinrich Altenmüller
Graphic design: Atelier Sven Beirnaert
Print: die Keure, Bruges
Publisher: Public Space / Actar, 2022
ISBN 9781638400332