Product Description

American Vitruvius, originally published in 1922, is considered the classic encyclopedia of urban design. It contains 1203 plans, elevations, and perspective views of both European and American cities, spanning from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. This facsimile edition includes a preface by Leon Krier as well as texts by Alan Plattus and Christiane Collins.

'The variety and originality of the illustrations in Civic Art will no doubt be the greatest attraction of this reedition. It is not only the most complete single-volume survey of the canonical bases of urbanism from ancient Greco-Roman colonnades to the medieval spaces of Siena and Bruges, to the more formal squares such as Pienza or the French Places Royales, to Haussmann's Paris and Burnham's Chicago, but is also inclusive of a scintillating collection of uncommon and forgotten designs....Yet it would be a shame to forgo Hegemann's text in pursuit of the pictures, because it is full of astute historical and formal observations.' Richard Ingersoll, Design Book Review

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #728291 in Books
• Published on: 1988
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 324 pages

Review
A beautiful facsimile .... It is not only the most complete single-volume survey of cononical cases of urbanism ... but it is also inclusive of a scintillating collection of uncommon and forgotten designs. Richard Ingersoll, Design Book Review

Customer Reviews

Finally available
It's great that this work is finally available in a more affordable and compact edition...an architecture and urban planning classic! What more can you say.

The Art of Designing Cities
This is an incredible achievement. It absolutely must be in the library of every architect and architecture student in the world, because we have lost contact with the beauty and social glory of living urbanistically. The architecture we produce supports this suburbanized lifestyle, and the anti social results of this new pattern of living can be seen daily on the news in all manner of bizarre murders and cultist activity. Well then! Without advocating a style of architecture in particular, this book advocates a type of planning that, if we are intelligent enough to understand this book, could save this country, and save the world. I do not exaggerate. Buy the book. You'll be a different person for having purchased it.