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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

By: Kostof, Spiro, 1936-.
Contributor(s): Castillo, Greg | Tobias, Richard [(ill.)].
Publisher: England : Thames & Hudson, 1999Description: 320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0500281726.Subject(s): Cities and towns -- History | City and town life | City planningDDC classification: 307.76
Contents:
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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Main Collection Taylor's Library-TU

Floor 3, Shelf 5 , Side 1, TierNo 1, BayNo 2

307.76 KOS (Browse shelf) 1 Available SABDx,27000,02,GR 5000047431

"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.