The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through HistoryBy: Spiro Kostof List Price: $50.00 Description: Cities are among the most enduring and remarkable of human artefacts. This study explains how and why cities 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 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. Publisher: Bulfinch Pr --> Find out more about "The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History" at Amazon.com or Order Now |
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