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Title: The New City: Principles of Planning.
Author: Ludwig Hilberseimer, with an introduction by Mies van der Rohe.
Format: Gray cloth hardcover without dust jacket.
Publisher: Paul Theobald, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Copyright date: 1944; stated First Edition; printed and bound at the Wisconsin Cuneo Press, with typography by O. M. Fokkert.
Language: English.
Subject/Topic: Architecture, city planning, and urban design reference work.
Contents: Organized into sections on society and cities, elements of city planning, and the organized city, discussing traffic, industrial and residential areas, decentralization, regional planning, and the spatial structure of modern settlements.
Illustrations: Extensively illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, diagrams, city plans, and architectural drawings, including plans of apartment houses, industrial cities, block combinations, and historic urban squares.
Interior: Text pages show even age toning but remain clean, legible, and securely bound, with plain endpapers and a previous owner's name written on the front free endpaper.
Special attributes: First edition illustrated architectural and planning treatise in cloth binding, suitable for collectors and researchers in modernist urban theory.
