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Visual Planning and the Picturesque

Visual Planning and the Picturesque Hardback - 2010

by Nikolaus Pevsner

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Hardback. New. Analyses English planning tradition before 1800. This title surveys English planning theory or, by the author's description, the theory of the picturesque. It presents a meditation on how this tradition and this theory shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the 19th century and, potentially, the 20th as well.
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Details

  • Title Visual Planning and the Picturesque
  • Author Nikolaus Pevsner
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
  • Date 2010-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781606060018
  • ISBN 9781606060018 / 1606060015
  • Weight 2.15 lbs (0.98 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.7 x 7.7 x 0.8 in (27.18 x 19.56 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Library of Congress subjects City planning - Philosophy, Picturesque, The, in architecture
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009039523
  • Dewey Decimal Code 711.4

From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

About the author


Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was a German-born British scholar of the history of art and architecture best known for his forty-six-volume series of comprehensive county guides, The Buildings of England. Mathew Aitchison is a lecturer in architecture and urban design at Queen's University Belfast.