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Gates and fences, sidewalks and driveways, alleys and parking lots--these ordinary features have an important architectural impact, influencing how a building relates to the spaces around it. As geographer Larry R. Ford argues, architectural histories and guidebooks tell us surprisingly little about the character of American cities because they concentrate on buildings taken out of context, buildings divorced from space. In The Spaces between Buildings, Ford focuses on the...

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Larry R. Ford is Professor in the Department of Geography at San Diego State University.

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"The lively work of a geographer who has spent years exploring cities... His explorations range across a broad spectrum, from the form and character of building skins to the effects of zoning and building codes on urban design. There is similar breadth to the temporal sweep of his work, which focuses primarily on contemporary American cities but is comfortable reaching back to nineteenth-century or earlier antecedents to explain contemporary...

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  • PublisherThe Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication date2000
  • ISBN 10 0801863309
  • ISBN 13 9780801863301
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages240
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