Rome: Urban Formation and Transformation [Hardcover]

In this book, Formation is ideal and utopian thinking, and Transformation is the adaptation of the ideal to the real or existing conditions. The book examines the dialectical relationship of these in the creation of the city. The subject is a contextual theory of urban design, utilizing Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture and urban development of Rome, as a case study. It demonstrates the complexity of Roman urbanism and the inter-relationship and role of Roman architecture to its urban context.The theory of urban Contextualism has not been adequately discussed and presented in regards to this historical city. Why it is important as a theory and as a method for designing Roman cities today? And therefore, it needs to be discussed. The book is an exploration and demonstration of urban analysis and visual diagramming, it is an urban and architectural analysis of significant Ancient, Renaissance and Baroque historical developments in the great city of Rome. There has rarely been a discussion and visual presentation of the relationship of Roman architecture to its urban context. Influenced by Rowe's vision, the author collects historical, analytical and graphical data derived from these elaborate studies on the city of Rome, which is seen as a perfect case study to comprehend and demonstrate how urban formation, transformation and architecture in general are in a critical relationship with the concepts of the ideal, the utopian and the physical reality. The book is simple in structure, well illustrated with a number of black and white maps and line sketches. The book is simple in structure, well illustrated with a number of black and white maps and line sketches.... --Landscape + UrbanismIn this book, Formation is ideal and utopian thinking, and Transformation is the adaptation of the ideal to the real or existing conditions. The book examines the dialectical relationship of these in the creation of the city. The subject is a contextual theory of urban delC&