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040 _aBC-EPAU
041 1 0 _aeng
100 _aCULLEN, Gordon
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245 1 0 _aTHE CONCISE TOWNSCAPE
260 1 0 _bButterworth architecture
_c1971
_aLondres
_aBoston
_aSingapour (etc)
300 _a199 p.
_bIll. en n. et b.
_c21 cm.
942 1 0 _c01
_t0804
_u8.2
_v191
994 _a08040085
500 _a1re édition en 1961 chez The Architectural Press. Retirages : 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1988, 1990
520 _a"Townscape" is the art of giving visual coherence and organisation to the jumble of buildings, streets and spaces that make up the urban environment. Its concepts were first developed by Gordon Cullen in The Architectural Review and were later embodied in the book TOWNSCAPE (1961) which instantly established itself as a major influence on architects, planners and others concerned with what cities should look like. Its interest, however, goes far beyond the professional sphere. Some may see it as an important contribution to art and architectural history since, for the first time, it explores the fact that certain visual effects in the grouping of buildings were based on quite definable, if often spontaneous, aesthetic principles. Others may find that it teaches them to appreciate, as no other book has done, what it is that makes a town "work" architecturally. A third group may want to study it for Cullen's superb drawings of city scenery - a skill at which he is the acknowledged master.
_bP.6. Avknowledgements P.7. Introduction P.13. Introduction to 1971 Edition Casebook P.17. Serial vision P.21. Place P.57. Content P.87. The functional tradition Général Studies P.97. Squares for all tastes P.103. Cross as focal point P.106. Closure P.111. Line of life P.121. Legs and wheels P.123. Hazards P. 128. The floor P.132. Prairie planning P. 140. Rule of thumb P. 144. Street lighting P. 151. Outdoor publicity P.155. The wall P.162. The English climate P.164. Casebook precedents P.168. Trees incorporated P.175. Change of level P.182. Here and there P. 188. Immediacy P. 193. Endpiece P. 197. Index
653 _aDesign urbain, Urbanisme, Villes Planification