Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History
by Girouard, Mark
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300035020
- ISBN 13
- 9780300035025
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About This Item
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985. Cloth, vii, 397 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Part 1: the city reborn; The revival of the west; Manufacture, trade, and money; Church and state; The texture of life; Bruges and Venice; Part 2: the city triumphant; Rome resplendent; The rise of the north; Amsterdam and Paris; The uses of leisure; A new scale; The city as export; Part 3: the exploding city; Manchester and the industrial city; London and the growth of the suburb; Paris and the boulevards; America and the birth of the skyscraper; Cities round the world; Babylon or Jerusalem; Epilogue; Notes to the text; Photographic acknowledgements; Index.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016133
- Title
- Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History
- Author
- Girouard, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0300035020
- ISBN 13
- 9780300035025
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Architecture / Urbanism, Cities & City Planning; European / 7. Late 19th Century; Architecture / Criticism;
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