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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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Book category Books in English The arts Architecture Landscape art & architecture

• Full title: City Shaped
• Author: Spiro Kostof
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780500280997
• ISBN: 0500280991
• ID: 04087510
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Weight: 1480 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 254 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. March 1999

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