Segal, Rafi creator author. Allen, Stan author. software, multimedia |d| UrbanNext July 17, 2019 monographic eng

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1831 words. Block/Tower proposes a new urban typology that responds to the changing social, technological and ecological urban conditions prevalent in dense urban environments such as New York City. The project offers an alternative model for mixed-use programming, with new functions integrated within a dense built fabric. Block/Tower is a design strategy that emphasizes the ecological, social and spatial rather than the commercial and speculative approach that has guided high-rise design of the past decades. As such, instead of an infinitely repeated typical floor plate, it suggests an integration of tower and urban block and imagines an architecture of interlocking volumes, spaces and programs that extends the urban experience of the city onto the vertical dimension of the tower. Discipline, Energy and sustainability, High Density, Politics and economics, Rafi Segal, Rafi Segal, Stan Allen, Statement, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms Ecology, Global Awareness, Planetary urbanizations, Political ecology, Politics, Population ecology, Social city, Social cohesion, Social culture, Social ecosystem, Statement, Urban ecology, Urban Paradigms, Urban political ecology Excerpt from "Block/Tower: New Housing Prototypes in Midtown Manhattan", by Rafi Segal and Stan Allen. City Architecture Manhattan, New York, USA USA 2575-5374 https://urbannext.net/blocktower/ https://urbannext.net/blocktower/ ES-BaAUN 221102 20221230115014.0 eng