The City Shaped
内容简介
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 AIAs prestigious book award in Architecture and Urbanism. Includes hundreds of photos and drawings that illustrate Professor Kostof.
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作者简介
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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读书文摘
作为对城市探讨的一个总结，我们可以从1938年出现的两个较具判断力的定义开始。L·沃思（L. Worth）认为城市是“一个相对较大，密度较高，由不同社会阶层的个体组成的永久性的定居地”。芒福德认为，城市是“权利与集体文化的最高聚集点”。而以下则是作者Spiro Kostof对城市基本前提的解释。
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