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Book Description
Patterned on The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art (1922), one of the most successful and well-known architecture books ever published, The New Civic Art, with all new text for hundreds of entries and 1200 new illustrations, exemplifies the very best contemporary urban planning and town design schemes. This entirely new book updates and thoroughly details the most important recent trends in civic architecture and planning. The massive, encyclopedic display, drawn from over 130 international sources, has been carefully selected for use not only by trained professionals but also for skilled amateurs involved in the shaping of cities and the built environment. Numerous examples culled from the works of such notable architects as Arata Isozaki, Frank Gehry, Robert A.M. Stern, Rob Krier, and many others cover all aspects of the environment, from the larger regional concerns down to details of the private realm.

About the Author
Andres Duany, an architect and leading authority in the field, is co-author of Rizzoli's Towns and Townmaking Principles.

Robert Alminana is an architect with Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company and lectures on design at the University of Miami.

Customer Reviews
A Perfect Sequel, April 3, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
If you don't have the first Civic Art, originally published in the twenties, you ought to buy it immediately. Having said that, this book is reiterates many of the same ideas, principles, and messages of the first Civc Art, but from a perspective including all of the developements (and learning from all of the problems) introduced into urban design in the last 80 years. It should be in the library of every architect and of those interested in architecture and urban design. I couldn't recommend it more highly.

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