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050 00 $aHT111$b.K625 1992
082 00 $a307.76$220
100 1 $aKostof, Spiro.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84145107
245 14 $aThe city assembled :$bthe elements of urban form through history /$cSpiro Kostof ; original drawings by Richard Tobias.
250 $a1st North American ed.
260 $aBoston :$bLittle, Brown,$c[1992], ©1992.
263 $a9211
300 $a320 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"A Bulfinch Press book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-313) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe City Edge -- $tPreliminaries -- $tThe Walled Edge -- $tMeeting the Water -- $tOn the Periphery -- $tThe Open City -- $tThe Soft Edge of Suburbia -- $g2.$tUrban Divisions -- $tThe Sovereign District -- $tGod in the City -- $tPagus Mercatorum -- $tKeeping Apart -- $g3.$tPublic Places -- $tThe Nature of Public Places -- $tThe Distribution of Public Places -- $tMatters of Size -- $tTypologies -- $tPublic Parks -- $tThe Public Places of Today -- $g4.$tThe Street -- $tThe Street as Public Space -- $tThe Design of Streets -- $tSome Street Types -- $tThe Advent of the Modernist Street -- $g5.$tUrban Process -- $tThe Fall and Rise of Cities -- $tDisasters and Their Aftermaths -- $tThe Destruction of War -- $tHaussmannization -- $tIncremental Changes -- $tProcess Against Conservation: The Life of Urban Form.
520 1 $a"Spiro Kostof's previous book, The City Shaped, examined ways in which cities develop through history, treating them as complete entities and analyzing the various categories into which they fall. Now, in what is both a companion volume and an independent study, he traces the component elements that make up different types of cities: streets, public places, urban divisions (religious, political, and social), and the fringe area where city and countryside meet." "In every instance, Professor Kostof follows a story that ranges widely in time and place up to the present to indicate that the discussion remains fresh and engages our own time in unexpected ways. In the past, all the elements of a city evolved in response to a variety of pressures. Today they are usually the result of planning decisions. In a final chapter, Kostof considers "urban process" - the effect on cities of natural disasters, war, and comprehensive redevelopment, compared with incremental growth and change. His book is thus an exercise in architectural and social history, a case study for the present, and a pointer for the future. Urban form is never innocent of social content: it is merely the matrix within which we organize daily life, and we have strong opinions about it. Modernism was a harsh intrusion in the development of almost every theme. The current recovery from the less tolerant aspects of that doctrine has made us look again at what it is that we treasure in the traditional city, and how we can recharge the old urban forms with present-day common sense." "The story is also told in over three hundred drawings, prints, paintings, and photographs that trace not only patterns but uses, from the colonnaded street of ancient Palmyra to the recent demonstrations in Prague's Wenceslas Square."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCities and towns$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117682
650 0 $aCity and town life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026255
650 0 $aCity planning.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026282
852 80 $bmil,res$hOn Order
852 00 $bmil$hHT111$i.K625 1992