"A welcome reissue of this influential work, with acute observations on the English urban landscape, fully
backed up with photographs and the author's characteristic drawings."
--Sociey of Architectual & Industrial Illustrators News
Butterworth Heinemann Web site
March, 2000
Summary
This book pioneered the concept of townscape. "Townscape" is the art of giving visual coherence and
organization to the jumble of buildings, streets and space that make up the urban environment.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Introduction to 1971 Edition
Casebook: Serial vision
Place
Content
The functional tradition
General Studies: Squares for all tastes
Cross as focal point
Closure
Line of life
Legs and wheels
Hazards
The floor
Prairie planning
Rule of thumb
Street lighting
Outdoor publicity
The wall
The English climate
Casebook precedents
Trees incorporated
Change of level
Here and there
Immediacy
Endpiece
