description: Today's bustling tourism has proved itself a double-edged on the one hand it acquaints great numbers of people with cities and sights they might otherwise have missed; on the other it focuses on individual landmarks that the city as a whole is obscured and confused. Steen Eiler Rasmussen concentrates here on the town as a unity, as a whole composed of buildings and places. Most of the town plans are scaled to 1:20,000 for easy over-all comparison; several famous places are reduced to 1:2000 for closer comparison. The buildings are for the most part presented in three the first, en face : then the same view, minus the façade; and finally a top view, as if the upper stories had been removed. The result is a picture not of static façade and monument but of rooms and houses and towns where people live.
language: English
title: Towns and Buildings
titlecomplete: Towns and Buildings
genres: Urbanism, Architecture, History, Reference, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Mit Pr