Title The miniature and the gigantic in Philadelphia architecture : essays on designing the city to human scale / Gray Read ; with a foreword by Marco Frascari

Published Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2007

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Description ix, 127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Measure of measures in Philadelphia -- Philadelphia geometries -- Above the roof: exquisite miniature -- Under Philadelphia: infrastructural gigantic -- Framing difference: the window's view -- Poetics of scale Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Architecture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc. SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095520 -- Buildings, structures, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004820 LC no. 2007013852 ISBN 0773454292

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