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Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti's approach to the urban environment. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria.

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“Pearson’s use of Alberti’s writings is imaginative and exhaustive, yet tactful. This is a rich and accessible account of a thinker whose concern with both rational reform and social stability could not be more timely.”

—Charles Burroughs Renaissance Quarterly



Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Destruction

2 The Divided City

3 The Limits of Power

4 Beyond the City

5 The Suburbs and Other Places

6 The Beautiful City

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Humanism and the Urban World Leon Battista

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      Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/11/2013
      ISBN13: 9780271063690, 978-0271063690
      ISBN10: 0271063696
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti's approach to the urban environment. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria.

      Trade Review

      “Pearson’s use of Alberti’s writings is imaginative and exhaustive, yet tactful. This is a rich and accessible account of a thinker whose concern with both rational reform and social stability could not be more timely.”

      —Charles Burroughs Renaissance Quarterly



      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1 Destruction

      2 The Divided City

      3 The Limits of Power

      4 Beyond the City

      5 The Suburbs and Other Places

      6 The Beautiful City

      Conclusion

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

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