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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
The City Shaped Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Author: Spiro Kostof
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780500280997
ISBN-10: 0500280991
Publication Date: 3/8/1999
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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