The City Assembled
The Elements of Urban Form Through History
Spiro Kostof
with the collaboration of Greg Castillo
Original drawings by Richard Tobias
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| 'Wise and beautiful' | | - The Times |
The City Assembled is a unique history of the elements of cities. It takes its place alongside Kostof’s previous book The City Shaped as an essential text for town planners and urban designers.
Kostof follows the evolution of city components to modern times, discussing the effect of natural disasters like the Great Fire of London and the Lisbon earthquake, war and comprehensive redevelopment, compared with traditional patterns of growth and change. Over 300 drawings, prints, paintings and photographs help to tell the story from the colonnaded streets of ancient Palmyra to shopping malls and gentrified London squares.
Both a classic study in architectural and social history and a pointer to the future, The City Assembled is a fitting testament to Professor Kostof’s wide-ranging intellectual powers.
Spiro Kostof (1936-1991) was Professor of Architectural History at the University of California at Berkeley, and wrote a companion volume to this book, The City Shaped, also published by Thames and Hudson.
Also of interest:
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History by Spiro Kostof
Nox: Machining Architecture
Zaha Hadid: The Complete Works
UN Studio: Architecture, Urbanism, Infrastructure
Buildings for Tomorrow: Architecture that Changed our World
Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500281726 | | ISBN-13 978-0500281727 | | | | 25.4 x 22.8 cm | | Paperback | | 320pp | | 346 illustrations, 40 in colour | | First published 1999 | | | | £19.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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