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This review is from: Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books) (Paperback)
This is my favorite book on urban design....how cities work, history of city design, and the key elements that make a city exciting, livable, and functional. A key insight of Mr. Bacon is the potential for the integration of various movement systems (train, car, pedestrian, etc.), and the vitality possible at the intersections and nodes of those systems.
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Well designed book,
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A very informative and well designed book. I am currently a grad. student in architecture and the ideas presented in this book are very intriguing. It takes a very practical approach to urban design. If this book were coupled with Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities, one could get two different but relevant viewpoints regarding this very important debate, especially in the wake of Modernism.
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Excellent Book,
This review is from: Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books) (Paperback)
This book is an excellent introduction to the nature of urban design.
It illustrates, in a concise and simple way, most of the major interventions in urban design beginning with early settlements, and finishing with modern cities. E.G the route to the Acropolis, the extension of the garden of Versailles, the reorientation of Georgian London. Every point is explained clearly using great plans, sections and photographs. The book features many references to the conceptual sketches of artist Paul Klee, which Bacon uses as comparisons for urban concepts. This book had a very positive effect on my understanding of architecture and urban design, and i would recommend it to anyone interested in the field. Bear in mind that it is not a standard history book. It is more light-hearted but that is why i enjoyed it so much.
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pedestrian plane, recession planes, movement systems, opposite page shows, architectural expression Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Klee, Market Street, Strada Felice, Regent Street, Santa Maria Maggiore, Market East, Penn Center, Piazza del Popolo, Saint Peter, Carlton House, Society Hill, Strada Pia, Champs Elysées, Panathenaic Way, Place Royale, Piazza San Marco, Place de la Carrière, Portland Place, Santissima Annunziata, Palazzo del Senatore, San Giovanni, San Trinità, Spanish Steps, Vincent Kling, Forbidden City New!
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pedestrian plane, recession planes, movement systems, opposite page shows, architectural expression Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Klee, Market Street, Strada Felice, Regent Street, Santa Maria Maggiore, Market East, Penn Center, Piazza del Popolo, Saint Peter, Carlton House, Society Hill, Strada Pia, Champs Elysées, Panathenaic Way, Place Royale, Piazza San Marco, Place de la Carrière, Portland Place, Santissima Annunziata, Palazzo del Senatore, San Giovanni, San Trinità, Spanish Steps, Vincent Kling, Forbidden City New!
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- Buckingham Palace by Roy Nash on page 201, page 209, and page 212
- The Making of Urban America. A History of City Planning in the United States by John W. Reps on page 220, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Towns and Buildings by Steen Eiler Rasmussen on page 171, and Back Matter
- An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner in Back Matter
- The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series) by Kevin Lynch in Back Matter
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- The Mall in Washington, 1791-1991 (Second Edition) by Prof. Richard Longstreth on page 98, page 297, and page 303
- City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning by Tom Turner in Front Matter, page 127, and Back Matter
- Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design by Rodolphe El-Khoury on page 163, page 169, and Back Matter
- Garden and Climate by Chip Sullivan on page 251, and Back Matter
- Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design by Roger Trancik on page 112, and Back Matter
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