The birth of modern London : the development and design of the city 1660-1720
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The birth of modern London : the development and design of the city 1660-1720
（Studies in design and material culture）
Manchester University Press, 1999
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780719040757
Description
The period 1660-1720 saw the foundation of modern London. The city was transformed post-Fire from a tight warren of medieval timber-framed buildings into a vastly expanded, regularised landscape of brick houses laid out in squares and spacious streets. This book examines the building boom and the speculative developers who created that landscape. It offers a wealth of new information on their working practices, the role of craftsmen and the design thinking which led to the creation of a new prototype for English housing.
While concentrating on the mass-produced houses of 'the middling sort', which saw the adoption of classicism on a large scale in this country for the first time, the book reveals that the 'new city' maintained a surprising degree of continuity with existing patterns of urban use and traditional architecture. It presents the late-seventeenth and the early eighteenth century as a distinct phase in London's architectural development and offers a radical reinterpretations of the adoption of Renaissance styles and ideas at the level of the everyday, challenging conventional interpretations of their use and reception in this country. -- .
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The development of the city: surveying the scene - conflicting perpsectives on the modern city
- the developers - noble landlords and greedy speculators
- creating the city - the "mad intemperance ...of building"
- constructing the city - the standardization of production
- the builders - honest artisans and crafty contractors. Part 2 The design of the city
- conceiving the city - I design through drawing
- conceiving the city - II books and altenrative design methods
- housing the city - tradition and innovation in the urban terrace
- open spaces in the city - from fields to squares and gardens.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719040764
Description
The period 1660-1720 saw the foundation of modern London. The city was transformed post-Fire from a tight warren of medieval timber-framed buildings into a vastly expanded, regularised landscape of brick houses laid out in squares and spacious streets. This book examines the building boom and the speculative developers who created that landscape. It offers a wealth of new information on their working practices, the role of craftsmen and the design thinking which led to the creation of a new prototype for English housing.
While concentrating on the mass-produced houses of 'the middling sort', which saw the adoption of classicism on a large scale in this country for the first time, the book reveals that the 'new city' maintained a surprising degree of continuity with existing patterns of urban use and traditional architecture. It presents the late-seventeenth and the early eighteenth century as a distinct phase in London's architectural development and offers a radical reinterpretations of the adoption of Renaissance styles and ideas at the level of the everyday, challenging conventional interpretations of their use and reception in this country. -- .
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