Description: Temples and Towns : The Form, Elements, and Principles of Planned Towns, Paperback by Dennis, Michael; Peterson, Steven K. (FRW), ISBN 1957183020, ISBN-13 9781957183022, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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. Th 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.
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Book Title: Temples and Towns : the Form, Elements, and Principles of Planned Towns
Number of Pages: 504 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oro Editions
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: General, Criticism, History / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Architecture
Item Weight: 0.1 Oz
Author: Michael Dennis
Item Length: 10.5 in
Item Width: 10.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback