Shaping London: The Patterns and Forms That Make the Metropolis

by Terry Farrell

In this wholly new and dynamic view of London, Farrell looks beyond the contribution of individual buildings to the city. He creates a larger, more exciting frame, charting how the capital's messy and complex shape has been hewn out of a series of layers - natural and manmade, so the Thames and the natural landscape gets as much attention as the railway infrastructure, the roads and the canals. This provides a whole series of revelations that allow...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470699965
• ISBN13: 9780470699966
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.1" x 10.2"