Visual Planning and the Picturesque
Visual Planning and the Picturesque
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PEVSNER. Aitchison, Mathew, ed. Visual Planning and the Picturesque
Getty Publications
Cl. 2010
SKU 83876
As assembled and annotated here, Pevsner's Townscape: On Visual Planning and the Picturesque comprises three parts. The first part analyzes English planning tradition before 1800. The second surveys English planning theory or, by Pevsner's lights, the theory of the picturesque. The third part is essentially a meditation on how this tradition and this theory shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the nineteenth century and, potentially, the twentieth as well.
232 pp., b&w illus.
