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The City Assembled is a history of the elements of cities: streets, public places, urban divisions (religious, political, and social), and the frontiers of city and countryside.

Kostof follows the evolution of city components to modern times. He discusses "urban process": the effect on cities of natural disasters like the Great Fire of London and the Lisbon earthquake, war, and comprehensive redevelopment, compared with traditional patterns of growth and change. The current recovery from modernist extremes has made us look again at what we treasure in traditional urban life, and how we can recharge the old forms with contemporary common sense. Over 300 drawings, prints, paintings, and ...

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Overview

The City Assembled is a history of the elements of cities: streets, public places, urban divisions (religious, political, and social), and the frontiers of city and countryside.

Kostof follows the evolution of city components to modern times. He discusses "urban process": the effect on cities of natural disasters like the Great Fire of London and the Lisbon earthquake, war, and comprehensive redevelopment, compared with traditional patterns of growth and change. The current recovery from modernist extremes has made us look again at what we treasure in traditional urban life, and how we can recharge the old forms with contemporary common sense. Over 300 drawings, prints, paintings, and photographs help to tell the story, illustrating both patterns and uses, from the colonnaded streets of ancient Palmyra to gentrified London squares.

A fitting testament to the wide-ranging intellect of Professor Kostof, The City Assembled is at once an exercise in architectural and social history, a case study for the present, and a pointer for the future. 346 illustrations, 40 in color.

Author Biography: Spiro Kostof (1936-1991) was Professor of Architectural History at the University of California at Berkley, and also taught at Yale, Columbia, MIT, and Rice universities.

Kostof follows The City Shaped with a brilliant study of the component parts that make up urban life. All cities consist of certain basic elements--streets, parks, public places, and boundaries--and it is to these day-to-day pieces of urban experience that this book turns, providing a fascinating understanding of walls, fortifications, placement of green space, and the fringe areas where city and country meet. Illustrations.

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This final book by noted architectural historian Kostof, who died in 1991, is a companion to The City Shaped ( LJ 10/1/91; LJ's Best Books of 1991, LJ 1/92, p. 56). Here he considers the parts that make up the city through time--walls, urban divisions, public places, the street, and the urban process. The book is wide-ranging in time and space and presents the fruits of a lifetime of looking, but it is fragmented, appearing to be almost an assembly of notes for a more considered work or for The City Shaped . Still, the author is an astute observer, and his remarks are frequently illuminating for specialists and novices alike. This survey of the microparts of cities will be of interest primarily to professionals and historians but also to urban inhabitants, the same audience addressed by William Whyte ( City: Rediscovering Its Center , LJ 2/1/89).-- Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780500281727
  • Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
  • Publication date: 1/28/2005
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 8.46 (w) x 10.02 (h) x 1.07 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 7
1 The City Edge 11
Preliminaries 11
The Walled Edge 26
Meeting the Water 39
On the Periphery 47
The Open City 54
The Soft Edge of Suburbia 59
2 Urban Divisions 71
The Sovereign District 74
God in the City 82
Pagus Mercatorum 92
Keeping Apart 102
3 Public Places 123
The Nature of Public Places 123
The Distribution of Public Places 130
Matters of Size 136
Typologies 144
Public Parks 164
The Public Places of Today 172
4 The Street 189
The Street as Public Space 194
The Design of Streets 213
Some Street Types 218
The Advent of the Modernist Street 231
5 Urban Process 245
The Fall and Rise of Cities 245
Disasters and Their Aftermaths 251
The Destruction of War 254
Haussmannization 266
Incremental Changes 279
Process Against Conservation: The Life of Urban Form 298
Notes 306
Bibliography 311
Acknowledgments for Illustrations 314
Index 315
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