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The city shaped : [Book] urban patterns and meanings through history / Spiro Kostof ; original drawings by Richard Tobias.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 1999.Description: 352 pages : illustrations (some colors) ; 26cmISBN:
  • 0500280991 (paperback)
  • 9780500280997 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 711.409 21
Other classification:
  • 711.409
Summary: 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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Books Books Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad Ground Floor 711.409 KOS-C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 55932
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Originally published: 1991.

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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