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020 $a9781606060018 (hardcover)
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100 1 $aPevsner, Nikolaus,$d1902-1983.
245 10 $aVisual planning and the picturesque /$cNikolaus Pevsner ; edited by Mathew Aitchison.
260 $aLos Angeles, Calif. :$bGetty Research Institute,$cc2010.
300 $avii, 221 p. :$bill., maps, plans ;$c28 cm.
500 $a"Much of the book that follows was published as journal articles in the Architectural Review (AR) in the 1940's and 1950's during Pevsner's term as editor"--P. 1.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-213) and index.
505 0 $aPevsner's townscape / John Macarthur and Mathew Aitchison -- Visual planning and the picturesque / Nikolaus Pevsner. Mostly presented in pictures -- Mostly presented in quotations -- Occasionally submitting solutions.
520 $aA previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner, much of which was published as journal articles in the Architectural Review in the 1940s and 1950s during Pevsner's term as editor.
520 $a"If the whole of a town is in the end not visually pleasing, the town is not worth having." Pevsner's Townscape presents a previously unpublished work by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history. Begun in the mid-1940s, Pevsner's unfinished manuscript is something of an anomaly in his vast oeuvre of writings in so far as it sought to complement the body of thought emerging in postwar Britain that was concerned with urban design, generally referred to as "Townscape." As assembled and annotated here, Pevsner's Townscape: On Visual Planning and the Picturesque comprises three parts. The first part analyzes English planning tradition before 1800. The second surveys English planning theory or, by Pevsner's lights, the theory of the picturesque. The third part is essentially a meditation on how this tradition and this theory shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the nineteenth century and, potentially, the twentieth as well. The work as a whole is a surprisingly fresh plea for a visual approach to urban design and common sense in architecture, one that sought to incorporate and mediate, rather than idealize and exclude.--Publisher's description.
650 0 $aCity planning$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aPicturesque, The, in architecture.
600 10 $aPevsner, Nikolaus,$d1902-1983.
650 0 $aCities and towns$zEngland.
710 2 $aGetty Research Institute.
700 1 $aAitchison, Mathew.
730 0 $aArchitectural review (London, England)
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