TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aras, Raman
AU  - Pandya, Yatin (Guide)
TI  - High-rise housing : potentials and validity of a building type  (Also available on CD) 
U1  - A TH-0860 
PY  - 2004///
N1  - CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION  1 Mass housing  A form of housing CHAPTER 17 Emergence of a building type - High-rise dwellings - Defense camps - Roman camps - Tower houses - Skyscrapers of Yemen - Social motives - Collective living - Housing as a commodity - Residence and place of work - The city in the park - postwar housing - Mixed development - Standardisation - eastern block - Material and technology - Modern movement - High-density and overcrowding - Models - housing as an integral part of city planning - Modernist approach Le Corbusiers urban models - Socialist approach Gropius and the Zeilenbau principle of housing - Megastructures - Visual impact - Facade and skyline CHAPTER 2 25 Limitations - Loss of connection with ground - Strained relation of community and dwelling - Stark nature of transitional and open spaces - Special user group needs - Increased structure and mechanical services - Increased maintenance needs - Increased circulation areas - Confinement - Constrained growth Potentials - Release of open space / green space - Shared community facilities - High density and concentration of services - Focus / landmark value - Less sound and air pollution - Better planning - Vistas CHAPTER 3  35 Design obligations and demands - Form of housing - Slab blocks - Point blocks - Agglomerative blocks - Mixed house form - Units and clustering - Domain - Core - Variations - Clustering - Circulation systems - Building as street - Elevated streets and their impact Community facilities - Collective living - Design responses - Aspect of flexibility - Open-endedness and predetermination CHAPTER 4  47 Design responses - Park hill - Robin hood gardens - Mhada - Sumeru apartments - Nagakin capsule tower - Kanchenjunga - Byker wall - Udayan Summary Siteplans Case study - Habitat 67 CONCLUSION  113 BIBLIOGRAPHY  120 ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 122
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