TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kostof,Spiro
AU  - Castillo,Greg
AU  - Tobias,Richard
TI  - The city assembled: the elements of urban form through history 
SN  - 0500281726
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - England
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - History
KW  - City and town life
KW  - City planning
N1  - "With 346 illustrations, 40 in colour" - T.p; First paperback edition 1999; First published in the United Kingdom in 1992 by Thames & Hudson; Introduction. - 1. The City Edge. Preliminaries. The Walled Edge. Meeting the Water. On the Periphery. The Open City. The Soft Edge of Suburbia. - Urban Divisions. Introduction. The Sovereign District. God in the City. Pagus Mercatorum. Keeping Apart. - 3. Public Places. The Nature of Public. The Distribution of Public Places. Matters of Size. Typologies. Public Parks. The Public Places of Today. - 4. The Street. Introduction. 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. - Acknowledgements for Illustrations. - Index
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