Book description
Costonis (law, Vanderbilt U.) bridges the fields of law and design and probes the task of legal aesthetics what the law can and cannot do in response to architectural development that radically changes the environment. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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I love this short lively book because it brings clarity and criticism of ideas about preservation and landmarks that were new when first published in 1989 yet hold true just as strongly today.
It’s not visual beauty alone that should define what gets preserves, the argument goes, but rather the associations or symbolic meanings that hold for residents of a place. Passionate about the subject, the author makes some of his points with photographs and cartoons sure to delight the reader.
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