The city in history : its origins, its transformations, and its prospects
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TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins, ©1961Description: xi, 657 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: - 9780156180351
- 301.36 MUM-C
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Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Sanctuary, village, and stronghold
2. The crystallization of the city
3. Ancestral forms and patterns
4. The nature of the ancient city
5. Emergence of the polis
6. Citizen versus ideal city
7. Hellenistic absolutism and urbanity
8. Megalopolis into necropolis
9. Cloister and community
10. Medieval urban housekeeping
11. Medieval disruptions, modern anticipations
12. The structure of baroque power
13. Court, parade, and capital
14. Commercial expansion and urban dissolution
15. Paleotechnic paradise: Coketown
16. Suburbia - and beyond
17. The myth of megalopolis
18. Retrospect and prospect.
The city’s development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. “One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century
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