Reinventing the Skyscraper : a vertical theory of urban design

Chichester, West Sussex, England: Wiley-Academy, 2002. Softcover. White wraps with color illus. and french flaps. 223 pp. Illustrated throughout in duotone black and teal. VG, slight bump to lower spine, tiny tear in plastic laminated to cover. Spine uncreased, Item #130301
ISBN: 0470843551

In English. This book is invaluable to the reader interested in tall buildings, to architects and engineers seeking a new approach for their design and to investors and developers seeking to create more marketable and habitable high-rise dwellings and skyscraper commercial spaces. It puts forward Ken Yeang's ideas for the skyscraper as a city-in-the-sky, in a novel design approach that resembles urban design and planning as against the design of a conventional building in a high-rise structure. The book proposes a new vertical theory of urban design and discusses Yeang's theoretical propositions and design concepts that include those for de-compartmenting the skyscraper's built form, for urban analysis as a three-dimensional matrix and for a strategy to map the land use of the skyscraper. It also suggest ideas for the diversification of vertical land uses, the creation of public realms and places-in-the-sky, vertical landscaping, creating high-rise neighbourhoods, vertical townscape, vertical transportation and accessibility, the skyscraper as an urban ecosystem and other related topics. This book is a sequel to Yeang's earlier book, The Skyscraper, Bioclimatically Considered (Wiley-Academy). --From the cover flap.

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