‘How to Like Everything’: Townscape and Photography

2012/10/01 by Robert Elwall · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Urban Planning and Governance #Urbanization and City Planning

paper · doi:10.1080/13602365.2012.724852

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Abstract

When we think of townscape we inevitably conjure up a vision of Gordon Cullen's evocative drawings of the existing or the ‘could be’ if only the precepts of townscape were adopted. This has tended ...

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• Enjoying this article by Robert Elwall in the Journal of Architecture about photography in the Townscape movement. Here, a photo of Gordon Cullen and J. M. Richards taking pictures of the Cobb at Lyme [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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