Great public squares : an architect's selection /
Gatje, Robert F.
Great public squares : an architect's selection / Robert F. Gatje. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010. - 224 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-221) and index.
Italy -- Greece -- Czech Republic -- Germany -- France -- Iberian Peninsula -- Great Britain -- United States.
From the storied piazzas of Rome, Venice, and Florence to the elegant places of Paris via less familiar gathering places in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, and Portugal, to the former marketplaces and graceful Georgian-style squares of the United Kingdom, to the most interesting and impressive squares of the New World―Santa Fe, Portland, Boston, and New York―architect Robert Gatje offers new insights, stunning computer-generated plans, and color photographs to convey the spatial experience, supplemented by a brief history of each square and measurements to assess their success in meeting human needs for inspiring outdoor space. There is no other source for this comparative data in one place. 35 color plans; 300 color photos
9780393731736 (hardcover) 0393731731 (hardcover)
2009034019
Plazas.
NA9070 / .G37 2010
711.55
Great public squares : an architect's selection / Robert F. Gatje. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010. - 224 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-221) and index.
Italy -- Greece -- Czech Republic -- Germany -- France -- Iberian Peninsula -- Great Britain -- United States.
From the storied piazzas of Rome, Venice, and Florence to the elegant places of Paris via less familiar gathering places in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, and Portugal, to the former marketplaces and graceful Georgian-style squares of the United Kingdom, to the most interesting and impressive squares of the New World―Santa Fe, Portland, Boston, and New York―architect Robert Gatje offers new insights, stunning computer-generated plans, and color photographs to convey the spatial experience, supplemented by a brief history of each square and measurements to assess their success in meeting human needs for inspiring outdoor space. There is no other source for this comparative data in one place. 35 color plans; 300 color photos
9780393731736 (hardcover) 0393731731 (hardcover)
2009034019
Plazas.
NA9070 / .G37 2010
711.55