The Aesthetic Townscape

by Yoshinobu Ashihara

Book Overview

Yoshinobu Ashihara, one of Japan's most celebrated architects, develops in this book a cross-cultural perspective on how people actually see and feel urban spaces. His study spans East and West, ranges from traditional villages of Japan; the Italian Apulia, and the Aegean to New York, Chandigarh, and Brasilia. Many of Ashihara's insights grow out of his reconciliation of positive-negative, yin-yang polarities. For example, he considers the demarcations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262510316
• ISBN13: 9780262510318
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"