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"Strategie voor stedelijkheid" Gert Urhahn and Milos Bobic   THOTH Publishers, 1996.

Views of urban planning were characterized in the last decades of the 20th century by a belief that the living environments can be manufactured by imposing a structure on activities and total planning from the top. This resulted in an ideal view of planning in general, and urban planning in particular, which is usually static and does not meet a real individual needs and cultures. Therefore it seems that notion of urban quality requires being given new content. Spatial forms are coupled to social, economic and cultural matters; while space create parameters within which urban environment develop. This book imposes two crucial questions: which elements, themes en spatial principles determine a level of quality of an urban environment? And, how can we achieve them? In other words, it deals with the city morphogenetic process that integrates basic spatial themes and development strategies.

Spatial themes and strategic principles are analyzed using single example, namely that of Vondelpark (Concertgebouw) district in Amsterdam, established in 19th century and continuously developed through the several decades. These analyses concern high and low level of scales and elaborate essential morphological, planning en strategic principles of the time that can be applied here and now as well as in the future.

Book specifications
Title - Strategie voor stedelijkheid: een studie over het thema stedebouwkundige kwaliteit en opdrachtgever
(Strategy for Urban Planning: A study into the theme of quality urban environments and the principal)
Authors - Gert Urhahn and Milos Bobic
ISBN - 9068681486/NUGI 655
Design - 135 pages, illustrations (black and white and color), 24 cm, Eng. summary, bibliography and references
Publisher - THOTH Publishers, Bussum (The Netherlands)

For any further information, please contact: Maroos Hendrickx, Uitgeverij THOTH, Bussum, tel. +31 (0)35-6944144, e-mail: mrh@thoth.nl, web: www.thoth.nl.