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Good. 317p. A hardcover book in good condition with a like dustjacket. Boards slightly warped to to exposure to dampness. Foredges are foxed. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket is foxed, dampstained, and worn, but still mostly intact. Filled with black and white illustrations.
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Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. ( city planning, urban ecology, biology) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Minor page soiling. 317 p. illus., maps, plans. 27 cm. Bibliographic Notes. Index. "This is a book about faith in the historical city, " writes the author. She presents the urban matrix of man not as a monument to the past but as a continuously self-creating human effort to shape an image of society and its collective aspirations. In contrast to the evolutionary theory of urban history, Mrs. Moholy-Nagy asserts that cities are not "overgrown villages, and citizens not yokels grown sophisticated. " From earliest times, urban life evolved from different premises. History was not made in villages but in cities-through the interaction of individuality, power structure, trade, and specialization-whose visual symbols were art and architecture. The glories and the failures, the urban virtues and the ancient urban vices, are shown with scholarship and humor to be timeless and ecumenical. From the vast panorama of urbanization, some 7, 000 years in the making, emerge key cities that share certain personality traits shaped by specific social and geographic conditions. Instead of a chronological and ethnic classification of urban history, the author presents archetypes that developed under related circumstances: geomorphic, concentric, orthogonal and modular plans, and their concomitant architecture, to which the twentieth century has added the intra-and ex-urban cluster.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Grey cloth stamped in silver; illustrated dust jacket; 4to; pp. 317, illustrated in b/w throughout. Abstract Expressionist painter Alfonso Ossorio's personal copy, signed on the half-title page in red and black ink in a decorative script style. Page 241 bound-in with small crease (publisher's error), otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket faintly dust-soiled; a little wrinkled along the edges; neatly reinforced with tape on the verso. The author of this book, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, was the daughter of Werkbund architect Martin Pietzsch and an art and architecture historian. Originally a German citizen, she became the second wife of the Hungarian Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and accompanied him in his move to the United States.
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Very good. 4to, hardcover, grey cloth. Vg+ condition in about vg dj. Dj has several closed tears; edgeworn and slightly rubbed. Covers and contents clean, binding tight. 317 pp., many illustrations.
