From Wren to Corbusier : The Physiological Analogy in Modern Urban Thought and its Antique Roots
In this thesis] examine the use of the human body as a model in urban theory since antiquity, with a focus on the second half of the seventeenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries. This approach makes it possible to reveal the continuity in use of the physiological analogy throughout histo...
Main Author: | Stevenson, James Maxwell |
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University of Essex
2008
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495546 |
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