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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 _960184
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