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Towns & Buildings (Towns and Buildings) by Rasmussen, Steen Eiler is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Towns & Buildings (Towns and Buildings) about?
Today's bustling tourism has proved itself a double-edged sword: on the one hand it acquaints great numbers of people with cities and sights they might otherwise have missed; on the other it focuses on individual landmarks that the city as a whole is obscured and confused. Steen Eiler Rasmussen concentrates here on the town as a unity, as a whole composed of buildings and places. Most of the town plans are scaled to 1:20,000 for easy over-all comparison; several famous places are reduced to 1:2000 for closer comparison. The buildings are for the most part presented in three views: the first, en face : then the same view, minus the façade; and finally a top view, as if the upper stories had been removed. The result is a picture not of static façade and monument but of rooms and houses and towns where people live.
Who reads Towns & Buildings (Towns and Buildings)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rasmussen, Steen Eiler
- Publisher
- The M.I.T. Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Published
- 1969
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262680110
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, Arts
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