Architecture, Town Planning and Community: Selected Writings and Public Talks by Cecil Burgess, 1909-1946

by Cecil Scott Burges

This collection of Burgess's public talks and writings offers a unique insight into the social and intellectual dimensions of architecture and town planning during the first half of the twentieth century. Architectural history, the impact of the Arts and Crafts and Modernist movements, the meaning of domestic architecture, and the connection of architecture and town planning to everyday life figure prominently in this collection. A contemporary of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888644558
• ISBN13: 9780888644558
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.7"