This volume – the first ever complete translation into English – includes over 1400 illustrations: photographs
Brenda and Robert Vale
For over 60 years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students of architecture
With over 290 photographs
Alongside these remarkable photographs
The Great Cities in History author-wendy-walsh This volume – the firstA work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together. From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of humankind Babylon and Nineveh, Athens and Rome, Istanbul and Venice, Timbuktu and