The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History

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Bulfinch, 04.05.1993 - 352 Seiten
Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a "repository of cultural meaning" and an embodiment of the community it shelters. Widely used by both architects and students of architecture, The City Shaped won the AIA's prestigious book award in Architecture and Urbanism. With hundreds of photographs and drawings that illustrate Professor Kostof's innovative ideas, this has become one of the most important works on urbanization.

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Autoren-Profil (1993)

Spiro Kostof (1936-1991) was a professor of Architectural History at the University of California at Berkley, and also taught at M.I.T., and at Yale, Columbia, and Rice universities. His many books include The Architect: Chapters in The History of the Profession (1977) and A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1985), now a standard text. He edited America by Design (1987), the companion to a five-part television series that he presented. Kostof also published The City Shaped with Bulfinch Press in 1991.

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TitelThe City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Autor/inSpiro Kostof
Illustriert vonRichard Tobias
Ausgabeillustriert, Neuauflage
VerlagBulfinch, 1993
ISBN0821220160, 9780821220160
Länge352 Seiten
  
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