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Hans Baltzer
Leporello Book – The City A city is a living being, almost like a big animal: The houses form its
skeleton, the streets are its arteries, the means of transport its
blood, the telecommunication cables its nerves, and City Hall may
be considered its brain. The city eats, it drinks and digests, and it
has grown – over the centuries...
The 60-inch-wide concertina-type poster at the end of the book
shows a cross section of the city, from the old centre around the
church, via the impressive streets of the inner city to the industrial
buildings on the outskirts of the town. In its course from the centre
to the periphery this cross section also follows the city’s history
from the Middle Ages to the present day. The book explains, aided
by copious illustrations, why a city needs quite different buildings
for living in on one hand, and working in on the other. It shows what
kinds of cables and pipes are buried under the street, what means
of transport there are, and how the different parts of a city have
special functions – but it also reveals the scars history has left in
the fabric of the city and explains what kinds of problems beset a
city in these modern times.
Leporel lo Book – The City
illustrations by Hans Baltzer
32 pages, hardcover
8.3 x 11 ins. / 21 x 28 cm,
colour throughout,
14.95 ! From 8 years onwards
comes with a detachable, concertina-type
poster,
11.4 x 59 ins. / 29 x 150 cm
Sold to Mainland China (Simplified characters). All other rights available
The art ist
Hans Baltzer, born in 1972, trained to
be a typesetter before studying
communication design in Berlin-
Weissensee and at the North Carolina
State University in Raleigh, USA. He now
works as a freelance graphic designer,
producing books, posters and sundry
others. He lives in Berlin with his family.
By the same art ist:
The Castle – where the Knights of old used to live
The Car – Technology and History
The Deep Sea – The Mysteries of marine Life
Egypt – an ancient Culture on the Nile
The Forest – a phantastic Ecosystem
The Mountain – From Dale to Mountain Top
Skyscrapers – a whole Town inside a House
Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart
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Maria Holtrop
Phone: +49 30 47 37 47 920
www.jacobystuart.de!