How to read towns & cities : a crash course in urban architecture
Glancey, Jonathan2016
Books, Manuscripts
This guide to understanding the forces that have shaped the world's cities takes a practical, highly visual approach - showing us how to read the stories embedded in the fabric of the neighbourhoods, towns, and cities in which we live today. Packed with plans, maps, and drawings, it takes the reader on an international journey of discovery to explore the history of cities from our earliest urban origins to the contemporary world city - from Babylon to Beijing, London to Paris, and from the skyscrapers of New York to the streets of their own home town.
Main title:
How to read towns & cities : a crash course in urban architecture / Jonathan Glancey.
Author:
Glancey, Jonathan, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2016.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 17 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781474219266 (pbk)
Dewey class:
711.409
LC class:
NA9090
Language:
English
BRN:
1111687
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