Download or read book The Modern Urban Landscape (Routledge Revivals) written by Edward Relph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, this book provides a wide-ranging account of how modern cities have come to look as they do — differing radically from their predecessors in their scale, style, details and meanings. It uses many illustrations and examples to explore the origins and development of specific landscape features. More generally it traces the interconnected changes which have occurred in architecture and aesthetic fashions, in planning, in economic and social conditions, and which together have created the landscape that now prevails in most of the cities of the world. This book will be of interest to students of architecture, urban studies and geography.