
Egbert Stolk
458 pages
ISBNÂ 978-9461865311
Published:
2015-09-09
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This dissertation investigates:
- How urban design can be described as a collective cognitive activity in a complex living environment;
- How urban designers move across scales in their search for coherence;
- How urban designers, while moving across scales, can be subject to a variety of misconceptions and biases;
- How isovists and patterns can be used as design instruments to mitigate the negative effects of these misconceptions and biases;...