Urban Design in Western Europe: Regime and Architecture 900-1900

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What makes a city endure and prosper? In this masterful survey of a thousand years of urban architecture Wolfgang Braunfels identified certain themes common to cities as different as Siena and London Munich and Venice. Most important is an architecture that expresses the citys personality and most particularly its political personality. Braunfels describes and classifies scores of citiescathedral cities city-state maritime cities imperial citiesand examines the links between their political and architectural histories. Lavishly illustrated with city plans birds-eye views early renderings and modern photographs this book will delight and instruct architects urban planners historians and travelers.