The Ideal City: Its Architectural Evolution in Europe

by Helen Rosenau

The concept of the 'ideal city' is, perhaps, more important today - when planners and architects are so firmly confined by considerations of our immediate environment - than ever before. Yet it is a concept which has profoundly influenced the western world throughout history, both as a regulative model and as an inspiration.

Rosenau traces the progress of the concept from biblical sources through the hellenistic and Roman empires to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415417791
• ISBN13: 9780415417792
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.6" x 9.5"