The book is an architectural historian's attempt to make accessible, to architects, urban designers, and the general public, the universal experience of making cities. It is a discussion of some patterns and elements of urban form seen in a historical HIS perspective. The author is not engaged with form in the abstract, or with form studied for its behavioral possibilities.
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KOSTOF, S. - The Sity Shaped Capitulo The City as Artifact)
The book is an architectural historian's attempt to make accessible, to architects, urban designers, and the general public, the universal experience of making cities. It is a discussion of some patterns and elements of urban form seen in a historical HIS perspective. The author is not engaged with form in the abstract, or with form studied for its behavioral possibilities.
The book is an architectural historian's attempt to make accessible, to architects, urban designers, and the general public, the universal experience of making cities. It is a discussion of some patterns and elements of urban form seen in a historical HIS perspective. The author is not engaged with form in the abstract, or with form studied for its behavioral possibilities.