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Concise Townscape [Paperback]

Gordon Cullen
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1 Dec 1961
This book pioneered the concept of townscape. 'Townscape' is the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings, streets and space that make up the urban environment. It has been a major influence on architects, planners and others concerned with what cities should look like.



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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Architectural Press; New Ed edition (1 Dec 1961)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0750620188
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750620185
  • Product Dimensions: 14.8 x 1.3 x 21 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 229,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A welcome reissue of this influential work, with acute observations on the English urban landscape, fully backed up with photographs and the author's characteristic drawings.'
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars classic lesson in how to see 29 Dec 2009
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well established, well crafted, book that created the genre of townscape analysis. Love it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Answer to Every Question 18 April 2008
By C. Olson - Published on Amazon.com
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If Gordon Cullen's book 'The Concise Townscape' were required reading for anyone entering an architectural education, the level of discourse on design would skyrocket. Cullen puts to words and images some of the more intangible qualities of space that nevertheless affect how we view our surroundings. It is, in my opinion, a categorization of experiences... discussing things like 'serial vision' (the progression of visual experience as one moves along a path) 'outdoor room and indoor landscape', 'looking into enclosure', 'viscosity', etc. etc. This book is more than a dictionary or thesaurus of spatial terms, however. It is primarily a book on experience- getting to the heart of how a space actually feels; how it is occupied, how it CAN be occupied, and what are the qualities that make it that way. If read for what it truly is, it renders the current fashion of architectural pornography rather silly.

And this, my friend, is where its true strength in Academia comes into play. Sexy renderings only take one so far, but your design professor has most likely read this book. Understanding Cullen's work will bring the discourse up, and move your work beyond a visual one-liner.

But that's just my opinion, and I could be wrong.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Cullen is a god of architecture 28 Aug 2011
By Paul Anderson - Published on Amazon.com
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This book has changed my life as it relates to the "gambits" of making an inventive street work. Other books cover enclosure and ending the street with a focul point. This book goes into so much more depth. The challenge for me is to take these largely urban ideas and apply them to a suburban environment (where I do my work) but that isn't Cullen's fault. The qualities that go into a good street will probably never change. Cullen catologed them for us here 40 or 50 years ago and these ideas, the fundementals, will never change.
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2.0 out of 5 stars The Concise Townscape 30 Jun 2008
By Dorothy E. Ramsay - Published on Amazon.com
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Too concise. Had to get copies of pictures left out from previous copy.

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