The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its ProspectsWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A definitive classic, Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence -- from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce -- to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. Mumford explores the factors that made Greek cities uniques and offers a controversial view of the Roman city concept. He explains how the role of monasticism influenced Christian towns and how mercanitile capitalism shapes the modern city today. The City in History remains a powerfully influential work, one that has shaped the agendas of urban planners, sociologists, and social critics since its publication in the 1960s. |
Contents
PREFACE xi | 3 |
THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF THE CITY | 29 |
ANCESTRAL FORMS AND PATTERNS | 55 |
TOMBORIENTED CITIES | 84 |
ROYAL MAKERS AND BREAKERS | 84 |
THE TRAUMA OF CIVILIZATION | 84 |
CITY AND WORKING QUARTER | 84 |
SACRED MOUNTAIN DELPHI | 84 |
THRICE USABLE SPACE | 200 |
BAROQUE DYNAMISM | 200 |
GRAPHIC SECTION II | 200 |
BAROQUE FORMALISM 29 THE COURTLY LIFE 30 ARISTOCRATIC OPENNESS | 200 |
PALATIAL PERSPECTIVES 32 EXTENSION AND ENCYSTMENT | 200 |
MEGALOPOLIS INTO NECROPOLIS | 205 |
CLOISTER AND COMMUNITY | 243 |
MEDIEVAL URBAN HOUSEKEEPING | 281 |
ATHENIAN POWER AND FORM | 84 |
ANCIENT WAYS MODERN DAYS | 84 |
MILESIAN ORDER | 84 |
CLASSIC CORE POMPEII | 84 |
POMPEIIAN DAILY LIFE | 84 |
POMPEII AND PAVIA 15 TEMPLE AND SUPERMARKET | 84 |
CROWD CONTAINERS | 84 |
THE NATURE OF THE ANCIENT CITY | 94 |
EMERGENCE OF THE POLIS | 119 |
CITIZEN VERSUS IDEAL CITY | 158 |
HELLENISTIC ABSOLUTISM AND URBANITY | 183 |
MEDIEVAL OXFORD | 200 |
DOMINANCE AND ENCLOSURre | 200 |
THE STONES OF VENICE | 200 |
CEREMONY AND PLAY | 200 |
CHRISTIAN IDEALS | 200 |
FLORENCE | 200 |
RENASCENCE COMPOSURE | 200 |
MEDIEVAL DISRUPTIONS MODErn anticipATIONS | 315 |
GRAPHIC SECTION III | 318 |
GETTING AND SPENDING 36 ORGANIC PLANNING AMSTERDAM | 318 |
PRIDE OF BATH | 318 |
UNDER ONE ROOF 39 INDUSTRIAL COKETOWN | 318 |
PALEOTECHNIC INFERNO 41 MODEL INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE | 318 |
THE STRUCTURE OF BAROQUE POWER | 344 |
COURT PARADE AND CAPITAL | 375 |
COMMERCIAL EXPANSION AND URBAN DISSOLUTION | 410 |
PALEOTECHNIC PARADISE COKETOWN | 446 |
SUBURBIAAND BEYOND | 482 |
THE MYTH OF MEGALOPOLIS | 525 |
RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT | 568 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 579 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 635 |
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