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  title info:
    title: Temples & towns
    sub title: the form, elements, and principles of planned towns
  title info:
    title: Temples and towns
  name:
    name part: Dennis, Michael Aaron
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 487 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 27 x 27 cm.
  abstract: This book traces the historic evolution of urban form, principles and design. It serves as a compendium, or reference, of city design and is a polemic about the necessity for the recovery of the city and a contemporary urban architecture. It begins with the planned cities of Greece and the Roman Empire from about 500 BC, through the late-medieval Bastides, the Ideal Renaissance cities and Baroque new towns, to the urban planning strategies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers anti-urban modernist architecture and the resulting disintegration of the city. It concludes with late-twentieth-century efforts to recover the city, a contemporary urban architecture and urbanism's potential contribution to the contemporary ecological crisis. The book is project oriented and extensively illustrated. It may be read graphically, textually or both. As such, it falls into the long tradition of illustrated treatises in which theory is embedded in the projects, with only occasional assistance or clarification from the text. Architecture and urban design are physical arts, not verbal arts, and they are best understood from graphic representations.
  note: Michael Dennis ; foreword by Steven K. Peterson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: City planning
    topic: History
  classification: NA9090 .D386 2022
  classification: 307.1216
  identifier: 9781957183022
  identifier: 1957183020
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220408
    record change date: 20231019205402.1
    record identifier: in00004633093