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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History Paperback - 1993

by Spiro Kostof

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Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a "repository of cultural meaning" and an embodiment of the community it shelters. Widely used by both architects and students of architecture, The City Shaped won the AIA's prestigious book award in Architecture and Urbanism. With hundreds of photographs and drawings that illustrate Professor Kostof's innovative ideas, this has become one of the most important works on urbanization.

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  • Title The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
  • Author Spiro Kostof
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bulfinch Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1993-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780821220160 / 0821220160
  • Weight 3.28 lbs (1.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 9 x 1 in (25.40 x 22.86 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Architecture
  • Library of Congress subjects Cities and towns - Growth, Cities and towns - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 307.76

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Spiro Kostof (1936-1991) was a professor of Architectural History at the University of California at Berkley, and also taught at M.I.T., and at Yale, Columbia, and Rice universities. His many books include The Architect: Chapters in The History of the Profession (1977) and A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1985), now a standard text. He edited America by Design (1987), the companion to a five-part television series that he presented. Kostof also published The City Shaped with Bulfinch Press in 1991.

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Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a "repository of cultural meaning" and an embodiment of the community it shelters. Widely used by both architects and students of architecture, The City Shaped won the AIA's prestigious book award in Architecture and Urbanism. With hundreds of photographs and drawings that illustrate Professor Kostof's innovative ideas, this has become one of the most important works on urbanization.
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