Septima reimpresión, 2009 Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 341-342) e índice CONTENIDO: Introduction. The city as artifact -- The city in history -- What is a city? -- "Organic" patterns. Planned cities and unplanned -- Coexistence and transcription -- The evolution of "organic" patterns -- The straight and the curved: design alternatives -- Modernism and the planned picturesque -- The grid. Preamble -- Historical review -- Laying out the grid -- Coordinated systems of town and country -- The closed grid: frame, accent, and open spaces -- The grid in the 20th century -- The city as diagram. Circles and polygons -- Specialized environments -- The political diagram -- The functional diagram -- The secular/socialist diagram -- The grand manner. Preliminaries -- Historical review -- Planning in the grand manner -- "Baroque" elements -- Post-modern Baroque -- The urban skyline. Introduction -- Skyline features -- Designing the skyline -- The modern skyline.
