ISBN:
9780415200752
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (369 p)
Series Statement:
Cities and Technology
Parallel Title:
Print version Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This, the first book in the series, explores cities from the earliest earth built settlements to the dawn of the industrial age exploring ancient, Medieval, early modern and renaissance cities. Among the cities examined are Uruk, Babylon, Thebes, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Siena, Florence, Antwerp, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Timbuktu, Great Zimbabwe, Hangzhou, Beijing and Hankou Among the technologies discussed are: irrigation, water transport, urban public transport, aqueducts, building materials such as brick and Roman concrete, weaponry and fortifications, street lig
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Definitions; Conventions and acknowledgements; Part 1 Ancient Cities; 1 The Near East; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The emergence of cities: a technological revolution?; 1.3 The emergence of cities: a social revolution?; 1.4 Technology and city-building in Mesopotamia; 1.5 Egypt: a civilization without cities?; 1.6 Conclusion; Extracts; References; 2 Greece; 2.1 Urbanization in the Aegean region; 2.2 Greece; 2.3 Greek urban planning and morphology; 2.4 Greek technologies and city-building; 2.5 Athens; 2.6 Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
ExtractReferences; 3 Rome; 3.1 The pattern of Roman urbanization; 3.2 Roman urban planning and morphology; 3.3 Technology and Roman city-building; 3.4 Rome: building the metropolis; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Part 2 Medieval and Early Modern Cities; 4 Medieval cities; 4.1 The barbarian invasions and the fate of cities; 4.2 Cities of Islam; 4.3 Urban revival of the Latin West; 4.4 The urban stimulus to medieval technology; 4.5 Town and country; Extract; References; 5 Renaissance cities; 5.1 Clarifying the period; 5.2 Building technology in Renaissance Florence
Description / Table of Contents:
5.3 Geometrical cities, imaginary and real5.4 Rome, the eternal city; References; 6 The Early Modern city; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Technological innovation, the built environment and the Early Modern city; 6.3 Three case-studies: Amsterdam, Paris and London; 6.4 Conclusions; Extracts; References; 7 Cities of the New World; 7.1 Cities of the New World; 7.2 Pre-Columbian cities; 7.3 Hispano-American cities; Extract; References; Part 3 Pre-industrial Cities in China and Africa; 8 Five Chinese cities before 1840; 8.1 Preliminary note; 8.2 Introduction: different kinds of city
Description / Table of Contents:
8.3 Chang'an: an administrative city8.4 Kaifeng: an industrial centre as capital; 8.5 Hangzhou and the canal cities, c.1130-1280; 8.6 Perspectives on an age of conflict, 1250-1368; 8.7 Beijing brickwork and cosmology, 1368-1644; 8.8 Conflict, commerce and natural resources; 8.9 Hankou-Beijing comparisons, 1750-1840; 8.10 The role of industry; 8.11 Conclusion; References; 9 The city in pre-colonial Africa; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Environmental constraints; 9.3 Building materials; 9.4 The cities of sub-Saharan Africa; 9.5 Conclusion; References; Conclusion: the Sjoberg model; References; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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