The City Shaped : Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History

Name: The City Shaped
Brand: Thames & Hudson Ltd
SKU: 9780500280997
Price: 5300 KES
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ISBN: 9780500280997

by Spiro Kostof

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0500280991

ISBN-13 9780500280997

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd

Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 8th, 1999

Print length 352 Pages

Weight 1,480 grams

Dimensions 23.10 x 25.40 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: History of art / art & design styles History of art City & town planning - architectural aspects City and town planning: architectural aspects Social & cultural history Social and cultural history

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An explanation of how and why cities took the shape they did. It focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the grand manner and the skyline - and interprets the hidden order of urban patterns. Photographs depict a global mosaic of citybuilding.

Published to overwhelming critical acclaim, this classic study of cities explains how and why cities — among the most enduring and remarkable of all human artefacts — took the shape they did. Professor Kostof focuses on a number of themes — organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the grand manner, and the skyline — and interprets the hidden order of urban patterns. Photographs, historical views and specially commissioned drawings vividly depict a global mosaic of citybuilding: the shaping of medieval Siena; the creation of New Delhi as the crown of the Raj, the remodelling of Moscow as the self-styled capital of world socialism and the transformation of the skyline as religious and civic symbols yield to the towers of corporate business. This is an enthralling book, of vital interest to architects, planners and social historians.

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