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City phenomenon between urban structure and composition
Jönköping University, School of Engineering, JTH, Civil Engineering and Lighting Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5814-2667
Department of Construction Technology, Karlstad University, Sweden.
2020 (English)In: Sustainability in urban planning and design / [ed] A. Almusaed, A. Almssad & L. Truong-Hong, London: IntechOpen , 2020Chapter in book (Refereed)
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development
Abstract [en]

Cities are not just a sum of buildings, but especially a set of social relations that their inhabitants develop. Cities are characterized by a wide variety of social groups and lifestyles. An urban composition represents a form of the city in which it gets a formal order, so that the shape of any urban ensemble is not linked to a random phenomenon, but to an intervention mastered and understood as such. For the city, the urban composition represents what the architectural composition represents for a building. This concept regarding the composition is common both to the architecture and to the city. The main property of the composition is that it transforms a possibly dispersed ensemble into a whole, resolving the contradictions that arise when the requirements and conditions of the project are numerous. Spatial forms and urban compositions are built over time, longer than that of architectural composition. On the other hand, “design of the urban environment” is understood by us as a complex formation of public spaces of the city, located on the ground floor level of the city building and ensuring the vital activity of the urban community. This chapter will study the city phenomenon on a large scale.

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London: IntechOpen , 2020.
Keywords [en]
urban structure, urban composition, urban design, urban space, public space, city image, city phenomenon
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Civil Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-51810DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90443ISBN: 978-1-83880-352-0 (electronic)ISBN: 978-1-83969-414-1 (electronic)ISBN: 978-1-83880-352-0 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-51810DiVA, id: diva2:1526107
Available from: 2021-02-05 Created: 2021-02-05 Last updated: 2021-02-05Bibliographically approved

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