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This book will appeal especially to designers, architects, and planners, as it organizes its subject matter according to what form it takes (grids, diagrams, skylines, etc.) rather than chronologically, topically, or typologically, as do other surveys of urbanism.

Customer Reviews
a guidebook of magnificent ideas on city, February 23, 2001
Reviewer: Li Xiangning from Shanghai, China
Perhapes part of Kostof's category for urban patterns (as organic, grids, grand manner....) is arguable, but his wonderful ananlyses for each individual sample lead us into deeper understanding of urban patterns and social meanings behind. Many cities familiar to most of us (Siena, Paris, New Dehli....) appear refreshingly unfamiliar in his book.

A Bible for an Urban Designer, December 14, 1999
Reviewer: Guy Marriage from London
Probably the most comprehensive guide to the thoughts, theories and practical aspects of designing a city. Buy it and weep for your boring grid plan cities....

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