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The city assembled : the elements of urban form through history / Spiro Kostof with the collaboration of Greg Castillo ; original drawings by Richard Tobias.
Main entry:

Kostof, Spiro, 1936-

Title & Author:

The city assembled : the elements of urban form through history / Spiro Kostof with the collaboration of Greg Castillo ; original drawings by Richard Tobias.

Publication:

London : Thames and Hudson, 1992.

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-313) and index.
Introduction -- 1. The City Edge -- Preliminaries -- The Walled Edge -- Meeting the Water -- On the Periphery -- The Open City -- The Soft Edge of Suburbia -- 2. Urban Divisions -- The Sovereign District -- God in the City -- Pagus Mercatorum -- Keeping Apart -- 3. Public Places -- The Nature of Public Places -- The Distribution of Public Places -- Matters of Size -- Typologies -- Public Parks -- The Public Places of Today -- 4. The Street -- The Street as Public Space -- The Design of Streets -- Some Street Types -- The Advent of the Modernist Street -- 5. Urban Process -- The Fall and Rise of Cities -- Disasters and Their Aftermaths -- The Destruction of War -- Haussmannization -- Incremental Changes -- Process Against Conservation: The Life of Urban Form -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments for Illustrations -- Index.
Summary:

"Spiro Kostof, the renowned architectural historian and chronicler of urban form, presents a universal history of the elements of cities: streets, public places, urban divisions, and the borders of city and countryside. This is both an independent study and a companion volume to Professor Kostof's book "The City Shaped" which dealt with cities as complete entities. Now he follows the evolution of their components, and traces the story right up to the present, showing how the issues remain fresh and engage with our own day, often in unexpected ways. He also discusses "urban process": the effect on cities of natural disasters (such as the Great Fire of London and the Lisbon earthquake), war and comprehensive redevelopment, compared with traditional patterns of incremental growth and change. This is at once an exercise in architectural and social history, a case-study for the present, and a pointer for the future."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0500341249
9780500341247
0500341184
9780500341186
9780500281727
0500281726
0821225995
9780821225998
0821219308 (Little, Brown)
9780821219300

Subject:

Cities and towns History.
Architecture History.
City and town life.
City planning.
Villes Histoire.
Architecture Histoire.
Vie urbaine.
Architecture.
Cities and towns.
Areas Metropolitanas.
City planning History.
Cities Environment planning History

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Castillo, Greg.
Tobias, Richard.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110771
Call No.: ID HT111.K625; ID:94-B613
Status: Available

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