America by Design

by Spiro Kostof

What is the pattern of America? How did we mark our land throughout our history with towns and farms, factories and railroad lines? And what does all this activity say about who we are and what we have been? In this book, a beautifully illustrated companion volume to a new PBS series, one of our most highly acclaimed architectural historians confronts these questions as he takes us on a thoughtful and wonderfully engaging tour of America's built environment.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195042832
• ISBN13: 9780195042832
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.1" x 10.3"