With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point from which he views cities past and possible.First published in hardcover under the title A Theory of Good City Form

Spiro Kostof, the renowned architectural historian and chronicler of urban form, presents a universal history of the elements of cities: streets, public places, urban divisions, and the borders of city and countryside. This is both an independent study and a companion volume to Professor Kostof's book "The City Shaped" which dealt with cities as complete entities. Now he follow...(展开全部)

Spiro Kostof, the renowned architectural historian and chronicler of urban form, presents a universal history of the elements of cities: streets, public places, urban divisions, and the borders of city and countryside. This is both an independent study and a companion volume to Professor Kostof's book "The City Shaped" which dealt with cities as complete entities. Now he follow...(展开全部)

Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of classical form, from individual ideas, phrases, and themes to the large-scale organization of complete m...(展开全部)

Life Form, Amélie Nothomb's nineteenth novel is a smart, singular, surreal novel about personality and philosophy, trauma and healing, solitude and human connection from one of the most widely read and beloved authors working today. One morning, the heroine of this book, a famous author named Amélie Nothomb, receives a letter from a fan, Melvin Mapple, an American soldier stati...(展开全部)

随着出版市场的蓬勃和多元发展，书帧和宣传册工艺、技巧的不断丰富，已成为设计界、文化界备受关注的热点。《Form》以传统和时尚共融的角度，辑录全球的优秀书帧和宣传册工艺设计个案，通过材质选用、形态设计，配以恰当的折页、装订及印刷手段，从不同领域，展示工艺和设计创意的运用与延展，体现其作为传统媒介所蕴含的新兴媒体无法比拟的收藏和艺术价值。 用设计品味文化，用创意焕发新机。本书由亚洲权威设计杂志《Design360°》与三度文化传媒机构策划出版，注重创意、代表性和实践意义，全球同步发行，是广大设计机构、设计师、出版机构等的工具之书，具较高的艺术价值和参考意义。

Covering current architectural projects designed by Form, the office of Greg Lynn, this text and interactive CD-ROM explore the potential of time-based animation techniques to inform architectural design. Through the use of animation and special effects software, Lynn seeks to transform space and form into highlt plastic and flexible entities. He uses topological geometries to ...(展开全部)

Covering current architectural projects designed by Form, the office of Greg Lynn, this text and interactive CD-ROM explore the potential of time-based animation techniques to inform architectural design. Through the use of animation and special effects software, Lynn seeks to transform space and form into highlt plastic and flexible entities. He uses topological geometries to ...(展开全部)

随着出版市场的蓬勃和多元发展，书帧和宣传册工艺、技巧的不断丰富，已成为设计界、文化界备受关注的热点。《Form》以传统和时尚共融的角度，辑录全球的优秀书帧和宣传册工艺设计个案，通过材质选用、形态设计，配以恰当的折页、装订及印刷手段，从不同领域，展示工艺和设计创意的运用与延展，体现其作为传统媒介所蕴含的新兴媒体无法比拟的收藏和艺术价值。 用设计品味文化，用创意焕发新机。本书由亚洲权威设计杂志《Design360°》与三度文化传媒机构策划出版，注重创意、代表性和实践意义，全球同步发行，是广大设计机构、设计师、出版机构等的工具之书，具较高的艺术价值和参考意义。

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitiv...(展开全部)