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Order in Historic Urban Environments
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Order in Historic Urban Environments

By: Mahmoud Tavassoli

£62.99

This book explores how the art of relationships in Historic Urban Environments holds precious knowledge for a coherent urban future. It shows how ordinary buildings and spaces shaped great masterpieces and can inspire the designing of our everyday living spaces.

This book explores how the essence of the art of relationships, although characteristic of Historic Urban Environments, exhibits precious knowledge and can contribute to a…
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This book explores how the essence of the art of relationships, although characteristic of Historic Urban Environments, exhibits precious knowledge and can contribute to a coherent urban future. The book discusses how ordinary buildings, and external and internal spaces had a great role in shaping the exceptional, great masterpieces. Today, they could inspire the designing of everyday living spaces. The book is based on research and long field studies.

Mahmoud Tavassoli is retired Professor of Urban Design at the University of Tehran, Iran. He has a degree in Architecture from the University of Tehran, a degree in Planning from the University of Edinburgh, the UK, and a degree in Urban Design from the University of Manchester, the UK. He is the author of Urban Structure in the Hot Arid Environments, 2016, and Form, Space and Design, 2019.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-4411-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4411-2
  • Date of Publication: 2025-06-11

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-4412-0
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4412-9
  • Date of Publication: 2025-06-11
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  • BIC: AMVD, AMCR, AMV
  • THEMA: AMVD, AMCR, AMV
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