Density in urban context

• Main Author: Fomyn, Pylyp, 1985-
• Other Authors: Listaháskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Arkitektúr; Borgarskipulag; Umhverfismál; Græn svæði; Þétting byggðar; City planning; Environmental aspects; Græn; Reykjavík; Svæði
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/11683

A direct and fundamentally optimistic approach of dense urban living and questioning of the ideologies of the urban planners since the Victorian age is the core concept in this paper. Density was perceived as destructive in the growing industrial city, which suffered from overcrowding, poverty and i...