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Camillo Sitte: The Birth of Modern City Planning: With a translation of the 1889 Austrian edition of his City Planning According to Artistic Principles (Dover Architecture) Paperback – Illustrated, December 15, 2006

by Christiane Crasemann Collins (Author), George R. Collins (Author), Camillo Sitte (Author)

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First published in 1889, this revolutionary text by a noted Austrian architect and urban planner ignited a new age of city planning. Inspired by medieval and baroque designs, Camillo Sitte emphasized the creation of spacious plazas, enhanced by monuments and other aesthetic elements.
Numerous illustrations highlight this classic, which features extensive commentary, notes, and a bibliography. The acclaimed translation and commentary by George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann Collins includes Sitte's original drawings and plates in a format resembling the original publication. The authors place Sitte's work within the context of its historical and theoretical background, and they establish its relevance to such recent developments in urban theory as the townscape movement and contextualism.

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December 15, 2006
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6.1 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
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0486451186
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978-0486451183
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; Translated, 1889 edition (December 15, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486451186
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486451183
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.37 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches

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Edward Rodriguez

An excellent urban planning and architectural handbook in creating and correcting ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2015

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An excellent urban planning and architectural handbook in creating and correcting new and existing cities. A larger format would have assisted in better representing Sitte's concepts in framing urban spaces.

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2017

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One of the best books to read and buy to know more about planning

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G. Cannon

Camillo Sitte: the Birth of Modern City Plannin

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2008

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The book was a gift for my son, a Landscape Architect. He was thrilled to get the book; was not familiar with it book looked through it with care & was very pleased to get it; plans to keep it at his office as a reference.

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Vicente F. de Castro Neto

Cmillo Sitte: a seminal urbanist

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2009

Camillo Sitte is very dear to architects that become urbanists because he is one that stressed the three-dimensional aspects of the city, its volumes (buildings) and free spaces (squares). This book covers his ideas thouroughly, with a profusion of images and is full of references. Buy it in hardcover for it is a book to be kept in your library for further readings.

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Pierre Gauthier

Paradoxical!

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2011

Much scholarship is reflected by this work which clearly results from considerable research by the two authors, George and Christiane Collins. The long introduction presents Camillo Sitte's biography and discusses the urban development context in Vienna and Austria when he wrote the `Art of Building Cities' as well as this book's impact on planning in the German-speaking world and abroad.

The authors explain that the 1902 French version of the book became the reference for the majority of later editions. They point out that this was much more than a translation but that the work was actually edited and completed by the translator. They describe this as a `heinous literary crime'.

However, the authors themselves explain that Sitte's original work was poorly written, more akin to notes than to a final manuscript, and that he himself thought the French version to reflect his ideas better than his original.

They then offer a translation that is more in conformity with the original German. Sadly, it displays a poor organization of ideas and rather muddled sentences such as: `One might add only _ and it has already been maintained _ that the artist who had been able to design such a marvellous project for Dresden should have been consulted much earlier; it must be admitted, however, that Semper was at that time living in obscurity in Zurich and his never-to-be-executed Dresden plan was as good as lost.' or 'If aesthetic aspects were to receive more attention, and if by means of frequent competitions artistic potentialities were relied upon more frequently, we could accomplish some good, at least as regards method_ although the great ideals of the ancients may still remain unattainable for some time to come.'.

Had it not been for the French edition of 1902, one can therefore question whether Sitte's ideas would have been understood and popularized as they have.

Are an author's ideas or loyalty and faithfulness to his original wording more important?

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Silver breeze

It's a book for all urban planing professionals, architects ...

Reviewed in Canada on December 25, 2016

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It's a book for all urban planing professionals, architects, architectural students and planning students.
This book studies the logic of urban fabric of traditional city. It reveals the charm of old city which is more human friendly than those planned and built by today's planing professionals. The observations illustrated in this book should be today's planning guidelines.

Pierre Gauthier

Paradoxical!

Reviewed in Canada on June 12, 2011

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Much scholarship is reflected by this work which clearly results from considerable research by the two authors, George and Christiane Collins. The long introduction presents Camillo Sitte's biography and discusses the urban development context in Vienna and Austria when he wrote the `Art of Building Cities' as well as this book's impact on planning in the German-speaking world and abroad.

The authors explain that the 1902 French version of the book became the reference for the majority of later editions. They point out that this was much more than a translation but that the work was actually edited and completed by the translator. They describe this as a `heinous literary crime'.

However, the authors themselves explain that Sitte's original work was poorly written, more akin to notes than to a final manuscript, and that he himself thought the French version to reflect his ideas better than his original.

They then offer a translation that is more in conformity with the original German. Sadly, it displays a poor organization of ideas and rather muddled sentences such as: `One might add only _ and it has already been maintained _ that the artist who had been able to design such a marvellous project for Dresden should have been consulted much earlier; it must be admitted, however, that Semper was at that time living in obscurity in Zurich and his never-to-be-executed Dresden plan was as good as lost.' or 'If aesthetic aspects were to receive more attention, and if by means of frequent competitions artistic potentialities were relied upon more frequently, we could accomplish some good, at least as regards method_ although the great ideals of the ancients may still remain unattainable for some time to come.'.

Had it not been for the French edition of 1902, one can therefore question whether Sitte's ideas would have been understood and popularized as they have.

Are an author's ideas or loyalty and faithfulness to his original wording more important?

Fifi the Fox

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2015

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useful book for architectural student to have must read for all town planners.

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