The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History - Kostof Spiro (Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1999)
Introduction, The City as Artifact: Preliminaries p.9, Affiliates of Method p.14, Periods and Categories p.26, The City in History p.29, Urban Cycles p.29, Urban Origins p.31, Early City Form p.34, What is a City? p.3, 1. Organic Patterns: Planned Cities and Unplanned p.43, Coexistence and Transcription p.46, The Evolution of "Organic Patterns, Cities as Organisms p.52, The Role Of Topography p.53, Land Division p.57, Synoecism p.59, The Law and Social Order p.62, The Straight and the Curved: Design Alternatives p.69, Origins of the Planned Picturesque p.70, Garden City Paradigm p.75, Conservation and the Lesson of History p.82, Modernism and the Planned Picturesque p.89, 2. The Grid: Preamble, The Nature of Rectilinear Planning p.95, The Grid and Politics p.99, Better Order" Or Routine p.102, Historical Review p.103, The Grid in the Ancient World p.103, New Towns in the Middle Ages p.108, The Renaissance in Europe p.111, Passage to America p.113, Laying out the Grid p.124, On the Site p.125, Surveyors and Theorists 126 The Town Planner As Artist p.128, Coordinated Systems of Town and Country, Rural Grids p.133, Gridded Extensions p.135, The Closed Grid: Frame, Accent, and Open Spaces p.138, The Walled Frame p.138, Street Rhythms p.140, The Distribution of Squares p.143, Block Organization p.147, The Grid in the 20th Century p.153, 3. The City as Diagram: Circles and Polygons, Arcosanti and Palmanova p.159, Utopias and Ideal Cities p.162, Specialized Environments: The Design of Regimentation p.165, Holy Cities p.171, The Political Diagram p.174, Linear Systems p.174, Centralized Systems p.179, Sforzinda's Example p.186, The Functional Diagram p.189, The Logic of Defense p.189, Traffic and Radial - Concentricity p.192, The Secular / Socialist Diagram p.196, The Cosmos of Workers, Criminals and Students p.196, Reforming Urban Society p.199, The Planet and Outer Space p.206, 4. The Grand Manner: Preliminaries p.209, Historical Review p.211, Antiquity p.212, European Baroque p.215, The Grand Manner Outside Italy p.216, Planning in the Grand Manner p.218, Topography p.218, The Grand Manner as Theater p.222, The Grand Manner and Landscape Design p.226, The Design of Heights p.228, "Baroque" Elements, The Straight Street p.230, The Baroque Diagonal p.232, Trivium and Polyvium p.235, Boulevards and Avenues p.249, Uniformity and The Continuous Frontage p.255, Variety in Unity p.261, The Vista p.263, Markers and Monuments p.266, The Ceremonial Axis p.271, Post-Modern Baroque p.276, 5. The Urban Skyline: Introduction p.279, Public and Private Skylines p.279, The Skyline Portrayed p.283, Skyline Features p.288, Sacred Heights p.290, Landmarks of the Secular City p.295, Designing the Skyline p.309, Some Principles p.310, Color and Light p.318, The Modern Skyline p.319, Forging the Stadtkrone p.321, Skyscraper City p.323, Towers of Glass p.330, and They Left off to Build the City p.333
Keywords: Urban Design