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"The Role of Time Function in the City Spatial Structures - Past and Present" Milos Bobic   Avebury/Gower, 1990.

This book expresses an assumption that the basic difference between the traditional and the modern planned city is not exclusively spatial by nature but originates in the different interpretations and understanding of time in space. The manner in which professionals understand and interpret time, as an explicit framework of existence, how they elaborate and organize it, their relationship to the past and the future, how their plans distribute it in space and organize in the process of the city building is represented by forms that are different from our personal, evolutionary conditioned understanding of the city pattern, space and form. We can assume that the main cause behind the loss of many traditional spatial characteristics of the city is basically result of simplifying the complex time-space relationship.

The aim of this book is to establish the historical complexity, meaning and role of the time function in constituting city space through an analysis of morphological patterns and the social context, and to establish critical points in the time-space relation in the process of the genesis and utilization of the modern, planned city. In the end, loss of dialectic harmony between space and time is reflected in our modern, unsuitable urban existence, in the poorer proportional strengthening of one of the categories of overall existence.

The book is organized in three parts: First: 'The structure of urban space and time', that explains the apparent forms of time and space, their relations and patterns; second: 'Space-time morphology', devoted to the role and influence of the time function in city space and building; and third: 'The projection of time in space', that deals with how to shape the city spatial structure as part of the modern processes of planning and designing.

Book specifications
Title - The Role of Time Function in the City Spatial Structures - Past and Present
Authors - Milos Bobic
ISBN - 1856280055
Design - xvii, 278 p.; b/w ill.; 23 cm; bibliography and references (p. 265-278).
Publisher - Avebury/Gower, Aldershot