Man Made the Town -9780370304670 價格比較,價格查詢,價格歷史信息

[注意] 1. 本店只販售全新正品，絕不賣仿冒品，請安心購買。 2. 下標前可以蝦皮聊聊是否商品有現貨。 3. 下單前請再次確認選購的商品款式，商品須保持全新，並於取貨後15天內提出。若經拆封、使用後導致商品缺乏完整性，恕不提供退貨服務。 [商品資訊] 精裝: 240頁 出版社: The Bodley Head (1987) by Michael Middleton 語言: 英語 ISBN-10: 0370304675 ISBN-13: 9780370304670 [商品內容] 'God made the country, and man made the town,' wrote William Cowper. This book is first and foremost a celebration of the town as -at least potentially- man's greatest collective work of art. More, it reveals again and again how the city is ourselves, mirroring with precision our needs and our activities, our values and our aspirations, our confusions and our contradictions-which is why this book is also a sobering indictment of modern man's capacity to dissipate beauty and create ugliness. Man Made the Town is a fascinating and penetrating essay on the nature of the city Michael Middleton, for seventeen years Director of the Civic Trust, has studied towns, large and small, in Europe, the United States and elsewhere. He has observed and photographed them with a sharp detachment. But because, at the same time, he is a missionary, he brings fervour to his subject, and offers convincing glimpses of town and city as they could so easily be if only we willed it sufficiently. His writing, as befits the subject, is urbane; his book an evocative plea for urban quality and the livable city.

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