Great Streets
1993 (First edition).
MIT
, Massachusetts
The book clearly emphasises the importance of streets in creating communities, even suggesting criteria for identifying the best streets as well as the factors in the decline of certain other famous streets. A wonderful hand sketch illustrated treatise for not only architects but those interested in city and town environments.
$92.00
Specifications
| Author | Jacobs, Allan |
| Illustrator | Illustrated by the author |
| Publisher | MIT |
| Place Published | Massachusetts |
| Year Published | 1993 (First edition) |
| Date of First Edition or Edition Notes |
1993 |
| Size | 4to - Quarto, 241mm x 305mm |
| Chapters | IV |
| Pages | 331pp |
Condition Report
| Cover | Hardcover with a tight square brown cloth spine and patterned light grey/green boards in fine condition with a brown and yellow illustrated dust wrapper with tiny amounts of chipping original the front edge but is faultless otherwise with no tears original other damage, now protected by clear archival covering as well. |
| Overall | Bearing a very neat and small prior owner name on a half-title page, the olive green sketched endpapers are unmarked as is the entire clean internal text. Certainly overall it remains near-fine original better. |