The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design
Language: English
Published by D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1958
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Coffee Cat Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.Coffee Cat Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 48.77
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Believed to be the student copy of notable American architect David Kahler, FAIA, w/ his name & Syracuse University address to the front pastedown. Very Good. September 1958 fifth printing of the 1950 first edition. 1950 (1958). D. Van Nostrand Company, Princeton, New Jersey. Hardcover: tan linen buckram cloth w/ maroon stamped lettering, light edge & corner wear, minor softening to spine ends. No jacket. Binding tight, solid & square. Minor chapter reference numerals to the front pastedown, else pages clean, bright & unmarked. B&w photographic frontispiece plate facing the title page, full page & in-text b&w aerial survey photographs, historic city plans, regional zoning maps & architectural diagrams throughout. 446 pp. 7.25x10.25 in. (Quarto). Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Once part of what is believed to be the working library of American architect David Kahler, FAIA, Arthur B. Gallion and Simon Eisner's The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design is a mid-century treatise on urbanism and civic development. First published in 1950 and issued here in its September 1958 fifth printing, the work delivers a critical survey of urban form across six structural sections, tracing civic evolution from ancient gridirons and medieval enclosures through industrialization, modern zoning ordinances, and post-war suburban expansion. The volume serves as a visual archive of twentieth-century planning history. The text integrates architectural illustrations throughout, including black-and-white aerial survey photographs by Fairchild Aerial Surveys, historical fortification diagrams, regional transit plans, and legislative zoning maps. Co-authored by Arthur B. Gallion, Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, alongside municipal planning consultant Simon Eisner, the treatise addressed the socio-economic realities of mid-century urban growth. Gallion and Eisner united physical architectural design with municipal administration, housing policy, and democratic civic responsibility. The front pastedown bears an ownership signature and Syracuse University student address believed to be those of architect David Kahler, 1936 to 2026, inscribed during his fourth year at Syracuse University School of Architecture. Kahler later served as president of Kahler Slater and co-architect of the Milwaukee Art Museum's Quadracci Pavilion alongside Santiago Calatrava, making the volume a physical record of his formative architectural training.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design
- Author
- Arthur B. Gallion; Simon Eisner
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey
- Publication year
- 1958
- Condition
- VERY GOOD
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Anthony Fialkowski
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Printing
- 5th or later printin
- Item weight
- 49 ounces
- Dimensions
- 7.25 x 10.25 in
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture, Design, Reference
Coffee Cat Books
Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
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