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Thomas Hope and the Neo-Classical Idea - David Watkin
Condition Very Good
Published by John Murray, London 1968
ISBN 0719518199
Whatever we may mean or think we mean by Neo-Classicism, it is now clear that its English manifestations cannot be understood without understanding Thomas Hope., 1769-1831.
316pp well illustrated in black and white.
# 18808
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The Art of Drawing in Lead Pencil - Jasper Dalwey
Condition Very Good
Second edition
Published by Batsford, London 1928
The pencil is an enduring tool for creating images on paper and whilst styles and fashion may change the techniques for sketches to highly polished work remain a constant.
246pp illustrated in black and white, of course
# 20219s65

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The Provincial Towns of Georgian England, a study of the building process 1740-1820 - C.W.Chalklin
Condition Very Good
Published by Edward Arnold, London 1974
ISBN 0713157615
Offers insights and much new data, not only to urban historians, but to local and economic historians, economists, geographers and anyone interested in the origins of our present urban conditions..
xxii, 367pp with black and white plates.
# 20322sC13
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Burnham of Chicago, Architect and Planner - Thomas S.Hines
Condition Very Good
Published by Oxford University Press 1974
ISBN 0195018362
Thanks to Daniel Burnham, father of the 'City Beautiful' movement, and to his numerous creative disciples and successors, Chicago and cities throughout the world have responded to the imperatives of comprehensive urban planning.
xxiii, 445pp.
# 20325sC13
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The Levittowners - Anatomy of Suburbia: the Birth of Society and Politics in a new American Town - Herbert J.Gans
Condition Very Good
Dustjacket Good
Published by Allen Lane the Penguin Press 1967
Herbert Gans, a sociologist, lived in Levittown, New Jersey - a prototypical American new town - for the first two years of its existence as a 'participant observer.'
xxix, 474pp.
# 20330sB13
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Modern, the Modern Movement in Britain - Alan Powers
Condition Very Good
Published by Merrell, London 2005
ISBN 1858942551
A survey of buildings of the 1930s, the decade in which Britain began to play an important role in the history of modern architecture. Explores the careers of nearly sixty of the most influential architects and practices active between the wars.
The buildings superbly photographed in colour by Morley von Sternberg.
240pp
# 20323sB13
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