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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History Reprint Edition

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Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a "repository of cultural meaning" and an embodiment of the community it shelters. Widely used by both architects and students of architecture, The City Shaped won the AIA's prestigious book award in Architecture and Urbanism. With hundreds of photographs and drawings that illustrate Professor Kostof's innovative ideas, this has become one of the most important works on urbanization.
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    0821220160
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    978-0821220160
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    Reprint
  4. Publisher
    Bulfinch
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    May 4, 1993
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    9 x 1 x 10 inches
  8. Print length
    352 pages
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Spiro Kostof (1936-1991) was a professor of Architectural History at the University of California at Berkley, and also taught at M.I.T., and at Yale, Columbia, and Rice universities. His many books include The Architect: Chapters in The History of the Profession (1977) and A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1985), now a standard text. He edited America by Design (1987), the companion to a five-part television series that he presented. Kostof also published The City Shaped with Bulfinch Press in 1991.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bulfinch; Reprint edition (May 4, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0821220160
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0821220160
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 1 x 10 inches
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Reader in St Pete
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2005
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Well written, consistently interesting and structured around the challenges of topography and the urban form demands invoked by market needs, political architectures and cultural expectations through history, this beautifully illustrated book delivers the promise of its title and a lot more.

Because the author, Spiro Kostof, organized his book by patterns and topological relationships, the text compresses history and geographies into a comparative perspective. This presents a disadvantage to the reader if he/she is interested in only one time, one culture or even just one architectural movement.

On the other hand, the comparative perspective lends authority to Kostof's overarching theoretical approach of connecting urban forms to content and how those relationships persist across the spectrum of the human experience. A must for any architect's or planner's library.
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Xavier Atlas
5.0 out of 5 stars A very complete compendium on the theory of city design
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2015
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Extremely interesting and well documented book on the different methods humans have used in their quest to create the ideal city. Although not arranges chrinologically but tipologically, the book covers history's clearest examoles of the variety of urban design theory. A must for the urban / architecture proffessional and aficionado.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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You'll never walk city streets the same as urban landscape communicates how belief systems manifest over hundreds of years.
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Paul Fields
4.0 out of 5 stars A lot of cool city maps, interesting how cities evolve over time
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2013
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I really like this book, there are a lot of made up cities and towns in some of the games that I play and I find it fasciniating how historical cities and fantasy cities are designed. The author lays out some different design styles for cities and then shows some examples of historical cities that match these styles. A good reference for anyone designing fantasy maps, or just students of architecture or history.
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Book was in excellent condition - better than described
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Great resource for understanding how cities grow in the way that they do.
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Ruth
5.0 out of 5 stars I love it. Outstanding
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2014
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I love it. Outstanding! The author shows very detailed explanation of the shapes of cities and theihr relation to history. This book is a must read for Urban Studies and Architecture major.
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Rina Surana
5.0 out of 5 stars ALL THE BISCUITS WERE CRUSHED!
Reviewed in India on January 26, 2021
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pedro campos
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2016
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pingouin
5.0 out of 5 stars la bible de l'urbanisme
Reviewed in France on February 1, 2016
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Cette lecture permet de tout savoir sur la genèse de la création urbaine à travers l'histoire de l'homme. Indispensable à tout curieux des mécanismes d'organisation spatiale de la ville.
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4.0 out of 5 stars panorama de elementos urbanos
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Bien expresado y documentado. Kostof fue un ameno, culto y brillante profesor, Este libro, junto con su "The City Assembled" completan un buen panorama histórico del repertorio de recursos y elementos de forma y proyecto urbano.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best book
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The best book about the cities
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