The commercial-residential building and local urban form

Urban Morphology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 89-104

  Davis, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Amsterdam; Building types; Commercial residential building; Kyoto; New york

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDING; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; ASIA; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; KYOTO; NETHERLANDS; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH HOLLAND; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350076902     PISSN: 10274278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. See, for example, Cromley, E.C. (1990) Alone together: a history of New York's early apartments (Cornell University Press, Ithaca)
2. and Muthesius, S. ( 1982) The English terraced house (Yale University Press, New Haven). These books both mention the presence of shops in residential buildings, but neither deals extensively with the idea of the hybrid building.
3. Most literature in English deals with the Chinese shophouse in its versions in SouthEast Asia and not in China. See, for example, Lee, H.Y. (2003) The Singapore shophouse: an Anglo-Chinese urban vernacular', in Knapp, R. (ed.) China's old dwellings: tradition, resilience and change (Oxford University Press, Hong Kong).
4. The best account in English of the machiya is Lofgren, K. (2003) Machiya: architecture and history of the Kyoto town house' (PhD dissertation, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Stockholm).
5. See also Yamasaki, M. (1994) Kyoto: its cityscape, traditions and heritage Process Architecture 116 (Books Nippan, Tokyo).
6. Meischke, R., Zantkuijl, H. J., Raue, W. and Rosenberg, P. T. E. E. (1995) Huizen in Nederland: Amsterdam (Wanders Uitgevers, Zwolle).
7. Finke, M., Knüppel, R., Mai, K. and Buning, U. (1989) Historische hauser in Lübeck (Charles Coleman, Lübeck).
8. Bascia, L., Carlotti, P. and Maffei, G. L. (2000) La casa Romana: nella storia delia citta dale origini all'Ottocento (Alinea, Florence)
9. and Maffei, G. L. (1990) La casa Florentina nella storia della citta (Marsilio Editore, Venezia).
10. This point is also made in Lofgren op. cit. 1 (note 3).
11. American literature on urban vernacular buildings is not nearly as extensive as that in Europe. But two useful sources on New York brownstones are Lockwood, C. (1972) Bricks and brownstone: the New York row house 1783-1929 (Abbeville Press, New York)
12. and Plunz, R. (1990) A history of housing in New York city: dwelling type and social change in the American metropolis (Columbia University Press, New York).
13. This process is similar to that in San Francisco, described in Moudon, A. V. (1986) Built for change: neighborhood architecture in San Francisco (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).
14. Many of these buildings are illustrated in Anon. (1908) Apartment houses of the metropolis (Hesselgren, New York).
15. Janse, H. (2001) Building Amsterdam (De Brink, Amsterdam) 48-49
16. Conversation with Paul Rosenberg, Amsterdam, 2003.
17. Komossa, S. (2005) The ring canals: Amsterdam,
18. in Komossa, S., Meyer, H., Risselada, M., Thomaes, S. and Jutten, N. Atlas of the Dutch urban block (THOTH, Bussum) 16-25.
19. Islington's Lonsdale Square is post-Georgian, built in the middle of the nineteenth century. Its isolation from principal commercial streets is described using an analysis based on space syntax: see Hillier, B. and Hanson, J. (1984) The social logic of space (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) 125-127