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The miniature and the gigantic in Philadelphia architecture : essays on designing the city to human scale / Gray Read ; with a foreword by Marco Frascari.
Fine Arts Library NA9127.P4 R43 2007
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA9127.P4 R43 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Read, Gray.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- City planning.
- Architecture.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Architecture--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Architecture--Composition, proportion, etc.
- Buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Buildings.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 127 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Measure of measures in Philadelphia
- Philadelphia geometries
- Above the roof: exquisite miniature
- Under Philadelphia: infrastructural gigantic
- Framing difference: the window's view
- Poetics of scale.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-123) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0773454292
- 9780773454293
- OCLC:
- 123079154
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