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The city in history : its origins, its transformations, its prospects / Lewis Mumford

By: Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 [autor].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harcourt Brace, 1989Description: xi, 657 páginas : ilustraciones.ISBN: 9780156180351.Subject(s): Ciudades y pueblos -- HistoriaDDC classification: 307.7409 M962c
Contents:
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 |
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General 307.7409 M962c (Browse shelf) Ej. 1 Available 200229

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 |