The wearer as much as the frock
Peter Campbell, 9 April 1992
The City Shaped
by Spiro Kostof.
Thames and Hudson, 352 pp., £24, September 1991,0 500 34118 4 Show More
by Spiro Kostof.
Thames and Hudson, 352 pp., £24, September 1991,
A New London
by Richard Rogers and Mark Fisher.
Penguin, 255 pp., £8.99, March 1992,0 14 015794 8 Show More
by Richard Rogers and Mark Fisher.
Penguin, 255 pp., £8.99, March 1992,
“... cities, are texts so glossed and patched that no single reading of any part of them is possible. Spiro Kostof’s The City Shaped deals with elements which impose patterns. The evidence is in the plans, drawings and aerial photographs which are the best illustrations in his book. The pointed stars of old defence works, now greened over, the irregular ... ”
