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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History Book

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.Read More

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    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.

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    The City Shaped : Paperback : Thames & Hudson Ltd : 9780500280997 : 0500280991 : 08 Mar 1999 : 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.

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    Spiro Kostof, Richard Tobias (Illus)

  • 0500280991
  • 9780500280997
  • Spiro Kostof, Richard Tobias
  • 8 March 1999
  • Thames & Hudson
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
  • New edition
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