GEORGIAN LONDON: The West End
Pat Dargan
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Description for GEORGIAN LONDON: The West End
Paperback. A guide to the West End's Georgian architectural history Num Pages: 96 pages, 114, 84 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 9. Weight in Grams: 304. The West End. 96 pages, 114 Illustrations incl 84 colour. A guide to the West End's Georgian architectural history. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; AMX. Dimension: 234 x 167 x 9. Weight: 304.
The eighteenth and early nineteenth century saw the dramatic expansion of London – wide and elegant boulevards, formal landscaped squares, crescents, blocks of tall redbrick terraced houses, and stone-built Classical public buildings all appeared in Britain for the first time. Throughout London’s sophisticated West End, in Bloomsbury, at Covent Garden, the British Museum and the National Gallery, the legacy of Georgian London is still strikingly apparent. This beautifully illustrated book explores the emergence of Georgian London: its beginning, its growth, and its Renaissance planning and architectural concepts. The individuals responsible for this unique urban intervention are introduced together ... Read more
The eighteenth and early nineteenth century saw the dramatic expansion of London – wide and elegant boulevards, formal landscaped squares, crescents, blocks of tall redbrick terraced houses, and stone-built Classical public buildings all appeared in Britain for the first time. Throughout London’s sophisticated West End, in Bloomsbury, at Covent Garden, the British Museum and the National Gallery, the legacy of Georgian London is still strikingly apparent. This beautifully illustrated book explores the emergence of Georgian London: its beginning, its growth, and its Renaissance planning and architectural concepts. The individuals responsible for this unique urban intervention are introduced together ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445613130
SKU
V9781445613130
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-32
About Pat Dargan
Pat Dargan has been an architect and planner for twenty years. He recently retired as a lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He lives between County Wicklow in Ireland and London.
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