Visual Planning and the Picturesque

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Nikolaus Pevsner Edited by Mathew Aitchison "If the whole of a town is in the end not visually pleasing, the town is not worth having." —Nikolaus Pevsner This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983), one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history, was begun in the mid-1940s. The unfinished manuscript is something of an anomaly in his vast oeuvre of writings in so far as it sought to complement the body of thought emerging in postwar Britain that…