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082			_aARCH _bVEN
100			_aVenturi, Robert
245		0	_aComplexity and Contradiction in Architecture
260			_a. _bThames and Hudson _c1999
300			_a352p. _c8.98 x 1.18 x 10 inches _rPB
504			_aCities are among the most enduring and remarkable of human artefacts. This study explains how and why cities took the shape they did. Professor Kostof focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the grand manner and the skyline - and interprets the hidden order of urban patterns. Photographs, historical views and specially commissioned drawings depict a global mosaic of citybuilding: the shaping of medieval Siena; the creation of New Delhi as the crown of the Raj; the remodelling of Moscow as the self-styled capital of world socialism and the transformation of the skyline as religious and civic symbols yield to the towers of corporate business.
650			_aArchitecture
650			_aUrban Planning and Development
700			_aBrown, D. Scott _eCo-author
942			_cBKS
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