The City Shaped - Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History

The City Shaped - Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
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The City Shaped - Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Spiro Kostof
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The City Shaped - Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History

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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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ISBN13 (SKU)
9780500280997
Title
The City Shaped - Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Author
Spiro Kostof
Edition
1st
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Publication Date
1999
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Format Type
Physical
Number of Pages
352
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