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Temples and Towns
The Form, Elements, and Principles of Planned Towns
Verlag:
Oro Editions Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 2YYRV6E
EAN: 9781957183022
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Zustellung: Mo, 12.10.2026
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Beschreibung
This book traces the historic evolution of urban form, principles, and design; it serves as a compendium, or reference, of city design; and is a polemic about the necessity for the recovery of the city and a contemporary urban architecture. It begins with the planned cities of Greece and the Roman Empire from about 500 BC, through the late-medieval Bastides, the Ideal Renaissance cities, and Baroque new towns, to the urban planning strategies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers anti-urban modernist architecture and the resulting disintegration of the city. It concludes with late-twentieth-century efforts to recover the city, a contemporary urban architecture, and urbanism's potential contribution to the contemporary ecological crisis. The book is project oriented and extensively illustrated. It may be read graphically, textually, or both. As such, it falls into the long tradition of illustrated treatises in which theory is embedded in the projects, with only occasional assistance or clarification from the text. Architecture and urban design are physical arts, not verbal arts, and they are best understood from graphic representations.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Michael Dennis
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2022
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 504