What makes a city endure and prosper? In this masterful survey of a thousand years of urban architecture, Wolfgang Braunfels identified certain themes common to cities as different as Siena and London, Munich and Venice. Most important is an architecture that expresses the city's personality and most particularly its political personality. Braunfels describes and classifies scores of citiesâ€”cathedral cities, city-state, maritime cities, imperial citiesâ€”and examines the links between their political and architectural histories. Lavishly illustrated with city plans, bird's-eye views, early renderings, and modern photographs, this book will delight and instruct architects, urban planners, historians, and travelers.

Urban Design in Western Europe: Regime and Architecture, 900-1900

Arts & Photography

BRAUNFELS, Wolfgang

Architecture

University of Chicago Press

What makes a city endure and prosper? In this masterful survey of a thousand years of urban architecture, Wolfgang Braunfels identified certain themes common to cities as different as Siena and London, Munich and Venice. Most important is an architecture that expresses the city's personality and most particularly its political personality. Braunfels describes and classifies scores of cities—cathedral cities, city-state, maritime cities, imperial cities—and examines the links between their political and architectural histories. Lavishly illustrated with city plans, bird's-eye views, early renderings, and modern photographs, this book will delight and instruct architects, urban planners, historians, and travelers.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Monasteries Of Western Europe - The Architectures Of The Orders

Monasteries of Western Europe: The Architecture of the Orders

Thames&Hudson

The Description for this book, Monasteries of Western Europe: The Architecture of the Orders, will be forthcoming.

Religion & Spirituality

Princeton University Press

The description for this book, Monasteries of Western Europe: The Architecture of the Orders, will be forthcoming.

History

Europe

Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie. Sonderausgabe.

Bandmann, Günter

Kollwitz, Johannes

Kirschbaum, Engelbert

Herder, Freiburg

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

Abendländische Stadtbaukunst: Herrschaftsform u. Baugestalt (DuMont Dokumente : Reihe Kunstgeschichte, Wissenschaft) (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

DuMont Schauberg

Mittelalterliche Stadtbaukunst in der Toskana (Gebr. Mann Studio-Reihe) (German Edition)

Mann

François Cuvilliés: Der Baumeister der galanten Architektur des Rokoko (German Edition)

Suddeutscher Verlag

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