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The City Shaped

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780500280997 Author(s): Spiro Kostof Format: Paperback Year: 1999 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd Dimensions: 228 x 29 x 254 (w x l x h) Pages: 352

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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.

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