Author Description

This companion to Urban Design: Street and Square (1992) describes putting frosting on the city cake: enhancing the basic functional elements by the judicious use of decorative surface treatment and the careful placing of hard and soft landscape features. Pivots around components such as the facade, the corner, skyline and roofscape, the city floor, landmarks, sculpture and furniture, and color. Illustrated in black and white. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.