Analysis Of The City Shaped By Spiro Korf
Author :- Spiro Kostof
Title of the book :- "The City Shaped" Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History.
Other Contributors :- Drawings by Richard Tobias
Bibliographical references and index :- Cities and towns - History , Cities and towns - Growth
Version :- 1
Publishers name :- Bulfinch Press
Published date :- May 4, 1991
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. This was the book when he was talking about cities instead of architecture unlike his other books.
This book has been divided into 5 chapters on which the author speaks about this topic :-
1. "Organic" Patterns
2. The Grid
3. The City as Diagram
4. The Grand Manner
5. The Urban Skyline …show more content…
He seeks to explain the evolution of urban design through sociological patterns of human settlements dating back to Maya and Mesopotamia. His introduction describes the possible origins of urban design through the various human agglomerations, Spiro Kostof discusses these origins of urbanism from multiple influences; from the morphology of military necessity, political forces, sociological humanistic responses, religious reasons and infrastructure needs, of which, clean running water being the most critical to human settlement. Water has always been an important factor for the growth of human settlement. All of these are not too far off from what our modern city’s have to contend with on a daily basis for the pursuit of future land use and
Title of the book :- "The City Shaped" Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History.
Other Contributors :- Drawings by Richard Tobias
Bibliographical references and index :- Cities and towns - History , Cities and towns - Growth
Version :- 1
Publishers name :- Bulfinch Press
Published date :- May 4, 1991
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. This was the book when he was talking about cities instead of architecture unlike his other books.
This book has been divided into 5 chapters on which the author speaks about this topic :-
1. "Organic" Patterns
2. The Grid
3. The City as Diagram
4. The Grand Manner
5. The Urban Skyline …show more content…
He seeks to explain the evolution of urban design through sociological patterns of human settlements dating back to Maya and Mesopotamia. His introduction describes the possible origins of urban design through the various human agglomerations, Spiro Kostof discusses these origins of urbanism from multiple influences; from the morphology of military necessity, political forces, sociological humanistic responses, religious reasons and infrastructure needs, of which, clean running water being the most critical to human settlement. Water has always been an important factor for the growth of human settlement. All of these are not too far off from what our modern city’s have to contend with on a daily basis for the pursuit of future land use and