Design of cities / Edmund N. Bacon

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, c1976Edition: Revised editionDescription: 336 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 140042369
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA 9050 .B33 1976
Contents:
Acknowldegments -- Foreword-revised edition -- Foreword -- The city as act of will -- Awareness of space as experience -- the nature of design -- Ways of perceiving one's self -- The growth of greek cities -- Design order of ancient Rome -- Medieval design -- Upsurge of the renaissance -- Design structure of baroque Rome -- Dutch interlude -- 18th and 19th century European design -- Development of Paris -- Evolution of Saint Petersburg -- John Nash and London -- Vitrivius comes to the new world -- Le Corbusier and the new vision -- The great effort - Brasilia -- Peking -- Simultaneous movement systems -- Decision making -- Putting the ideas to work - Philadelphia -- City for humanity - Stockholm -- Looking into the future -- Appendix -- Notes on illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The purpose of this revised edition is to transmit, not the forms of my work which will be deemed obsolete, but rather the forces behind them, the thought models and the muscular and sensory images on which they were based, and the forces which propelled them into action.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Architecture GC NA 9050 .B33 1976 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000010864
Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Architecture GC NA 9050 .B33 1976 c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.2 Available NULIB000017487

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowldegments -- Foreword-revised edition -- Foreword -- The city as act of will -- Awareness of space as experience -- the nature of design -- Ways of perceiving one's self -- The growth of greek cities -- Design order of ancient Rome -- Medieval design -- Upsurge of the renaissance -- Design structure of baroque Rome -- Dutch interlude -- 18th and 19th century European design -- Development of Paris -- Evolution of Saint Petersburg -- John Nash and London -- Vitrivius comes to the new world -- Le Corbusier and the new vision -- The great effort - Brasilia -- Peking -- Simultaneous movement systems -- Decision making -- Putting the ideas to work - Philadelphia -- City for humanity - Stockholm -- Looking into the future -- Appendix -- Notes on illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index.

The purpose of this revised edition is to transmit, not the forms of my work which will be deemed obsolete, but rather the forces behind them, the thought models and the muscular and sensory images on which they were based, and the forces which propelled them into action.

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