Table of Contents

Illustrations Illustration Credits Preface Acknowledgments 1: Paris: The Image of the City 2: Revolutionary Space 3: Character and Design Method 4: The Neoclassical Interlude 5: The System of the Home 6: Landscapes of Eternity 7: The Space of Absence Notes Index

About the Author

Richard A. Etlin is a Distinguished University Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Maryland. He is the author of five books, most recently In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters and Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.