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Temples and Towns: The Form, Elements, and Principles of Planned Towns

Temples and Towns: The Form, Elements, and Principles of Planned Towns

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General ArchitectureArchitecture History

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ISBN10: 1957183020
ISBN13: 9781957183022
Publisher: Oro Editions
Published: Oct 18 2022
Pages: 504
Weight: 5.38
Height: 1.20 Width: 10.50 Depth: 10.40
Language: English
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.

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