Shapers of Urban Form: Explorations in Morphological Agency

By: Peter J. Larkham and Michael P. Conzen

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Synopsis: People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship on the forces, people, and institutions that have shaped cities from the Middle Ages to the present day. Larkham and Conzen collect new essays in "urban morphology," the people-centered predecessor to contemporary theories of top-down urban design. Shapers of Urban Form focuses on the social processes that create patterns of urban forms in four discrete periods: Pre-modern, early modern, industrial-era and postmodern development. Featuring studies of English, American, Western and Eastern European, and New Zealand urban history and urban form, this collection is invaluable to scholars of urban design and town planning, as well as urban and economic historians.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 360 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317812500
Related ISBNs:: 9780415738903, 9780415738897, 9781315817064
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/27/23
Copyrighted By:: Taylor & Francis
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Peter J. Larkham
Edited by:: Michael P. Conzen