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title: "The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History"
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# The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History

**Brand:** spiro kostof
**Price:** A$143
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- **What is this?** The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History by spiro kostof
- **How much does it cost?** A$143 with free shipping
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A classic
  

*by R***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2005*

Well written, consistently interesting and structured around the challenges of topography and the urban form demands invoked by market needs, political architectures and cultural expectations through history, this beautifully illustrated book delivers the promise of its title and a lot more.Because the author, Spiro Kostof, organized his book by patterns and topological relationships, the text compresses history and geographies into a comparative perspective. This presents a disadvantage to the reader if he/she is interested in only one time, one culture or even just one architectural movement.On the other hand, the comparative perspective lends authority to Kostof's overarching theoretical approach of connecting urban forms to content and how those relationships persist across the spectrum of the human experience. A must for any architect's or planner's library.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A lot of cool city maps, interesting how cities evolve over time
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 26, 2013*

I really like this book, there are a lot of made up cities and towns in some of the games that I play and I find it fasciniating how historical cities and fantasy cities are designed. The author lays out some different design styles for cities and then shows some examples of historical cities that match these styles. A good reference for anyone designing fantasy maps, or just students of architecture or history.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A very complete compendium on the theory of city design
  

*by X***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 29, 2015*

Extremely interesting and well documented book on the different methods humans have used in their quest to create the ideal city. Although not arranges chrinologically but tipologically, the book covers history's clearest examoles of the variety of urban design theory. A must for the urban / architecture proffessional and aficionado.

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