This is a collection of photographs of clay models of fifty significant towns and cities all to the scale of 1:14,000. Because the models exhibited only the gross topographical and architectural characteristics of each locality, a city's general pattern, shape, and area can be apprehended immediately and compared directly with the form and size of the others included.The models were the work of a second-year studio in architecture with help from other members of the student body. They were built from white plasticene, balsa wood, and paint to the scale of 1:7200 (600 feet to an inch) and photographically reduced to the scale of 1:14,000 (1200 feet to an inch).For the most part the settlements are represented at the peak of their historical importance, whether in ancient, medieval, or modern times. Included are Aigues-Mortes, Amsterdam, Angkor, Assisi, Athens, Avila, Babylon, Bruges, Cambridge, Carcassone, Chandigarh, Chartres, Chichen Itza, Granada, Hook, Karlsruhe, Kristiansund, Lubeck, Machu Picchu, Middelburg, Miletus, Monte Alban, Mont-Saint-Michel, Moscow, New York, Nordlingen, Palmanova, Paris, Peking, Pergamum, Persepolis, Philadelphia, Pompeii, Portofino, Priene Pyramid Complex, Rome, Saarlouis, Sabbioneta, San Gimignano, Savannah, Siena, Tikal, Timgad, Venice, Versailles, and Washington, D. C.
- ISBN10 0262730359
- ISBN13 9780262730358
- Publish Date 22 December 1976
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 2010
- Publish Country US
- Publisher MIT Press Ltd
- Imprint MIT Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 64
- Language English