The city in history : its origins, its transformations, its prospects /
Lewis Mumford
- New York : Harcourt Brace, 1989
- xi, 657 páginas : ilustraciones
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. Helleinistic absolutism and urbanity | 8. Megalopolis into necropolis | 9. Cloister and commnity | 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 beyo | 17. The myth of megalopolis | 18. Retrospect and prospect |