Description: Streetscapes : Navigating Historic English Towns, Hardcover by Dean, Ptolemy, ISBN 1848226837, ISBN-13 9781848226838, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Featuring 26 of the most attractive and interesting historic town centres, this book analyses key routes and the urban or visual incidents along them and explains why they might provoke different sensations of joy, interest or containment for the inhabitant or of the town studies includes two historical maps – one created by John Speed in the C16th, which explains the general overall layout of a town, its shape, size, defensive walls, and river crossings, and the other a first edition OS map from the late C19th, which reveals the extent that medieval arrangements have survived, or not. Key routes within selected towns are then selected and illustrated as a way to explaining the topography and layout of these towns and how one still experiences them. In particular, there is the recurring theme about how the town might naturally draw you through to its centre, the subtlety of character and placing of key buildings as markers, each of which is uniquely different for each town. The drawings which illustrated the town studies are not only beautiful, but can be discriminate in aspects emphasised.
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Book Title: Streetscapes : Navigating Historic English Towns
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers, The Limited
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: Reference, General, History / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Architecture
Item Weight: 60.8 Oz
Author: Ptolemy Dean
Item Length: 10.6 in
Item Width: 9.8 in
Format: Hardcover
