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Design of Cities: Revised Edition

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K**O

Form and Movement in City Design

Edmund Bacon provides a great analysis of form and movement in city design. He uses examples of Greek and Roman cities, Renaissance cities, old Europe cities, old Asian cities, modern cities in Asia and South America, and ultimately his own city, Philadelphia. His hypothesis hinges on Paul Klee's art and thinking with stunning explanations of Klee's sketches and art and how they relate to city design.

R**B

Excellent Introduction to Urban Planning

The book that opened my eyes to urban Design. The comparisons to Klee's worth are insightful, the visual demonstrations of movement through space have transformed my experience of cities, and the author is always engaging. The only problem is Bacon's mistaken ideas for cities of the future based on car travel. But no ones perfect. Does this masterpiece with A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, et. al.

M**U

Could Be Better

The book is detailed in description and does have nice sketches of examples, however, to understand the design of each city, one must study the simple sketch for a bit and relate back to the text back and forth. Although this may sound natural and may also make me come off as a person who just doesn't like to read, I feel the book could've provided better examples or diagrams. Sometimes a sketch of an urban plan and one colored arrow just doesn't cut it for everyone.

C**Z

Fantastic textbook for architecture students and many architects..

In this classic text on city design Edmund Bacon explains the elements of the new urbanism. I teach architecture and use this text as reference to explain a brief history of urban form and as a model for urban design concepts and drawings because many of its chapters are beautifully illustrated with refined and thoughtful conceptual diagrams that are rich examples for anyone who wants to understand how to design the urban dimension.

A**D

urban planning class required text

I purchased this book for an Urban Planning class and found it very interesting and ended up wanting to read it a second time. The book was in great condition when it arrived. I would purchase from this seller again.

A**R

fair to poor

not as advertised

P**M

A comprehensive review of historic and contemporary urban design strategies

A comprehensive review of historic and contemporary urban design strategies complete with wonderful hand drawn, pre CAD, diagrams and sketches with a compelling text written by former Philiadelphia city planner Ed Bacon and several younger urban designers.

G**D

Five Stars

Awesome 📚 👏🏼👍🏼

F**.

Molto bello

Bel libro, splendidamente illustrato: sintetico ma interessante. Purtroppo la rilegatura è piuttosto economica e non adatta al tipo di libro (che prevede anche illustrazioni a doppia pagina).

P**A

Five Stars

great book. a must for a every one interested in Urban design

A**R

Five Stars

Full of the excitement for civic rejuvenation of the 1960s. Lots of lessons for today.

L**Z

Design of Cities

Design of citiesMuy interesante, pero aún no he acabado de leerlo. De momento estoy disfrutando, da una idea general del valor de las ideas y su influencia en la utilización del espacio.

P**N

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