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Today design of urban block as the basic element of urban fabric is getting more and more important. In this chapter, in which its method is mainly based on local field studies in Iran and Berlin , I will try in brief to describe and analyze the production of urban blocks. The study discusses morphologically four types of urban blocks in Iran from distant past to the present, considering the influence of West, after modernism , and policy for the future. It also discusses an experience of Berlin renewing urban block and the integration of three existing buildings and the independence of the new buildings.
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Part one of this chapter is new version of an article, delivered as a member of Scientific Committee, to “SB-LAB2017—International Conference on Advances on Sustainable Cities and Building Development.” The present work is an extensively revised version including an experience dealing with renewing an urban block in Berlin . This chapter also benefits from the knowledge of the influential work dealing with the form of urban block , by French scholars translated into English, with supplementary chapters, Philippe Panerai, Jean Castex, and Jean-Charles Depaule, English edition Ivor Samules, “Urban Forms, the Death and Life of the Urban Block ”, Architectural Press, 2005.
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Urban Structure in Hot Arid Environments , Springer, 2016, p. 28
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See the third chapter of this book: Urban Space , a comparative look .
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Ibid., Urban Structure. …, p. xxxvii.
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See City-Projekte/City Centre Projects, Berlin , March 1995, part 17.
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See M. Tavassoli et al. Urban Design Kargar Street Tehran , Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Urban Development and Revitalization Corporation, Tehran (2000), p. 124.
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For a detailed study, design and renewal of several different areas of Berlin see First Projects in Careful Urban Renewal , International Building Exhibition Berlin 1984.
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City-Projekte/City centre projects (1995) Berlin
First projects in careful urban renewal (1984) International Building Exhibition Berlin
Panerai P, Castex J, Depaule JC, Samules I (2005) Urban forms, the death and life of the urban block, English edn. Architectural Press, Oxford
Tavassoli M (2016) Urban structure in the hot arid environments. Springer, Berlin
Tavassoli M et al (2000) Urban design kargar street Tehran. Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Urban Development and Revitalization Corporation
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Tavassoli, M. (2020). Design of Urban Block. In: Form, Space and Design. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15831-6_5
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