Urban Design in Western Europe: Regime and Architecture, 900-1900 [Paperback]

Wolfgang Braunfels (Author), Kenneth J. Northcott (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1990 | ISBN-10: 0226071790 | ISBN-13: 978-0226071794

What makes a city endure and prosper? In this masterful survey of a thousand years of urban architecture, Wolfgang Braunfels identified certain themes common to cities as different as Siena and London, Munich and Venice. Most important is an architecture that expresses the city's personality and most particularly its political personality. Braunfels describes and classifies scores of cities—cathedral cities, city-state, maritime cities, imperial cities—and examines the links between their political and architectural histories. Lavishly illustrated with city plans, bird's-eye views, early renderings, and modern photographs, this book will delight and instruct architects, urban planners, historians, and travelers.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

There are many one-volume histories of urban planning, from Paul Zucker's Town and Square (1959) to, most recently, Jonathan Barnett's The Elusive City ( LJ 10/15/86). The volume at hand covers the subject from 900 to 1900, concentrating on central Europe. Organized typologically, it moves from cathedral cities, port cities, imperial cities, ideal cities, court cities, and capital cities to a final chapter on the eternal city, Rome. Braunfels, author of the widely acclaimed Monasteries of Western Europe (1973), takes a political tack, examining how physical forms have taken shape from political forces and pleading the case for wise urban design. Peter Kaufman, Suffolk Community Coll., Selden, N.Y.
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Text: English, German (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 422 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (January 15, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226071790
• ISBN-13: 978-0226071794
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #932,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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