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| Preface and Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Architects and Builders | 8 |
| 2 | The Site and its Preparation | 28 |
| 3 | Building Supplies | 52 |
| 4 | The Stone Trades | 66 |
| 5 | Brickwork | 101 |
| 6 | The Timber Trades | 119 |
| 7 | Hardware | 162 |
| 8 | Plumbers and Glaziers | 177 |
| 9 | Plasterers and Painters | 197 |
| App. I | Building Regulations in London in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | 230 |
| App. II | St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 232 |
| App. III | The London Terraced House as Described by Isaac Ware | 238 |
| App. IV | Description of the Great Arch of London Bridge | 240 |
| Glossary | 241 | |
| Notes | 249 | |
| Index | 272 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Jeff Edelstein
reviewed Building the Georgian City on November 14, 2013
Building the Georgian City
As an outsider who has had a casual interest in Brazil, I would like to recommend this book for reasons the authors perhaps did not intend.
While it appears to be a very specialized book aimed architects and planners, it (perhaps unintentionally) serves as an amazing transect through the Brazil of the period, with appearances by major public figures like Niemeyer, Costa and Roberto Burle Marx but in a presentation that inevitably also focuses on the experience 'on-the-street' of the population of Brasilia.
It considers all of this through the lens of international, national and local politics, culture and criticism. The book is also loaded with quality photos and illustrations. It does not tell the whole story of Brazil or Brasilia, but it teases out several significant threads. Any other book would be hard pressed to pack as effective a snapshot of a time and place into a mere 100 pages.
I am including it on my personal 'five foot shelf'.
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