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Public space and constantly growing traffic in
urban areas and resulting conflicting uses and
trade-offs are highly topical in contemporary
urban design discourse
Offers creative strategies for the resolution
of such conflicts and for the transformation of
traffic space into truly public space
Combines research findings and theory with
concise advice based on case studies
Public space is an essence of urban life, of a city’s living quality. Transforming space
occupied by the increasingly dense traffic in urban areas is the most effective way to increase
the quantity and quality into truly public space in cities and larger metropolitan
areas. Any such increase must start with ensuring a balance between the various uses
of space: more room for pause and the slow traffic of pedestrians and cyclists, less for
handling of goods and the faster, passive mobility by car.
This book introduces new approaches and instruments to improve actual designs as
well as the planning process, outlining creative strategies rather than a rigid set of
rules.
Aglaée Degros, Stefan Bendiks
Traffic Space is Public Space
A Handbook for Transformation
Paperback
approx. 240 pages, 110 color and
20 b/w illustrations
17 × 24 cm (6¾ × 9½ in)
978-3-03860-165-4 English / German
ISBN 978-3-03860-165-4
Aglaée Degros is an architect and urban designer,
and a founding partner of planning and
research firm Artgineering in Brussels. She
also teaches as a professor at the Institute of
Urbanism, TU Graz.
Stefan Bendiks is an architect and urban designer,
and co-founder of Brussels-based planning
and research firm Artgineering. He also lectures
at various European universities.
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 39.00
December 2019 (Europe) | March 2020 (US)
Explores the impact of cultural clashes caused
by European colonization on the city of Fez’s
urban fabric and social structure
Features informative graphics, maps,
photographs and proposals for architectural
interventions
The partition and colonization of Africa by European powers between 1881 and 1914
disrupted the continent with enduring repercussions. Morocco—located at a crossroads
between Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab-Muslim Maghreb, and Mediterranean
Europe—has struggled to withstand the resulting cultural and sociopolitical clashes
ever since.
This book looks at Morocco’s second-largest city, investigating how these clashes have
marked Fez’s socioeconomic structure and urban fabric, and whether or not it offers
alternative and relevant means of human association and community. It also explores
questions about identity, authenticity, tradition, the globalization of culture, and the use
of local resources.
Harry Gugger, Sarah Barth, Augustin
Clément, Alexandros Fotakis, Tiago Trigo
(eds)
Fez Lessons
Industrious Habitat. Teaching and Research
in Architecture
In cooperation with Laboratory Basel (laba),
EPFL, Lausanne
Paperback
approx. 208 pages, 150 color and
200 b/w illustrations
21 × 31 cm (8¼ × 12¼ in)
978-3-03860-169-2 English
ISBN 978-3-03860-169-2
Harry Gugger is an architect in Basel and a
professor at EPFL’s School of Architecture,
heading the school’s satellite studio Laboratory
Basel (laba).
Currently working at laba are architects Sarah
Barth and Tiago Trigo as research assistants,
and Augustin Clément and Alexandros Fotakis as
teaching assistants.
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
November 2019 (Europe) | March 2020 (US)