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041 _aeng
082 _a307.1216
_bCUL-C
100 _aCullen, Gordon
_960346
245 _aConcise townscape/
_cGordon Cullen
260 _aLondon :
_bRoutledge,
_c1971.
260 _aOxon
_bArchitecutral Press,
_c2003.
300 _a199 p.
505 _aAcknowledgements-- Introduction-- Introduction to 1971 Edition-- Casebook: Serial vision-- Place-- Content-- The functional tradition-- General Studies : Squares for all tastes-- Cross as focal point-- Closure-- Line of life-- Legs and wheels-- Hazards-- The floor-- Prairie planning-- Rule of thumb-- Street lighting ; Outdoor publicity-- The wall-- The English climate-- Casebook precedents-- Trees incorporated-- Change of level-- Here and there-- Immediacy-- Endpiece-- Index
520 _a"Townscape" is the art of giving visual coherence and organisation to the jumble of buildings, streets and spaces that make up the urban environment. Its concepts were first developed by Gordon Cullen in The Architectural Review and were later embodied in the book TOWNSCAPE (1961) which instantly established itself as a major influence on architects, planners and others concerned with what cities should look like. Its interest, however, goes far beyond the professional sphere. Some may see it as an important contribution to art and architectural history since, for the first time, it explores the fact that certain visual effects in the grouping of buildings were based on quite definable, if often spontaneous, aesthetic principles. Others may find that it teaches them to appreciate, as no other book has done, what it is that makes a town "work" architecturally. A third group may want to study it for Cullen's superb drawings of city scenery - a skill at which he is the acknowledged master."--BOOK JACKET.
650 _aPL
_959483
650 _aCity planning
_960184
650 _aCity planning
_zGreat Britain
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942 _cBK
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