Temples and Towns

The Form, Elements, and Principles of Planned Towns

Michael Dennis, Steven K. Peterson

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English

Goff Books
24 January 2023

This book traces the historic evolution of urban form, principles, and design; it serves as a compendium, or reference, of city design; and is a polemic about the necessity for the recovery of the city and a contemporary urban architecture.

It begins with the planned cities of Greece and the Roman Empire from about 500 BC, through the late-medieval Bastides, the Ideal Renaissance cities, and Baroque new towns, to the urban planning strategies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers anti-urban modernist architecture and the resulting disintegration of the city. It concludes with late-twentieth-century efforts to recover the city, a contemporary urban architecture, and urbanism’s potential contribution to the contemporary ecological crisis.

The book is project oriented and extensively illustrated. It may be read graphically, textually, or both. As such, it falls into the long tradition of illustrated treatises in which theory is embedded in the projects, with only occasional assistance or clarification from the text. Architecture and urban design are physical arts, not verbal arts, and they are best understood from graphic representations.

By: Michael Dennis
Foreword by: Steven K. Peterson
Imprint: Goff Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 266mm, Width: 266mm,
Weight: 2.434kg
ISBN: 9781957183022
ISBN 10: 1957183020
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 24 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Dennis is an architect, author, and educator. He is Professor of Architecture Emeritus at MIT. He was the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, and the recipient of the CNU Athena Medal for contributions to urbanism. Other contributors Steven K. Peterson, Foreword

Reviews for Temples and Towns: The Form, Elements, and Principles of Planned Towns

In this long overdue extension of Michael Dennis's 1986 book Court & Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture, the thoughtful architect and educator turns his attention to town planning. The copious illustrations alone are worth the price and render this a must-have for any architect or urban designer's library. --ARCHITECT, The Journal of the American Institute of Architects