Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History - Softcover

Girouard, Mr. Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300039689 ISBN 13: 9780300039689

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1987

Synopsis

This social and aesthetic history of the world's major cities from antiquity to the present focuses on crucial periods of the cities' past and examines their architecture in light of the men and women who used it

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From Library Journal:

Girouard, author of a dozen well-re ceived books on English architecture, here is concerned with Western cities from the Middle Ages to the present. He aims to show why selected cities grew and developed as they did, with first a potted history of the revival of urban life, then discussions of the great preindustrial cities, and finally a consideration of industry (Manches ter), suburbs (London), and the sky scraper. Although Girouard writes well, his subject is too broad and the treatment too episodic for the book to amount to much, even at an introduc tory level. The author provides exposi tion, but no synthesis. Only for com prehensive collections, or where Girouard's name will create a de mand. Jack Perry Brown, Art Int. of Chicago Libs.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0300039689
• ISBN 13: 9780300039689
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 401