Author: Arthur Segal
Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corporation
ISBN: 9780822508366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Examines the art of city planning as it was in ancient times, and describes some of the oldest planned cities, now in ruins, of Greece, the Roman Empire, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.
City Planning in Ancient Times
Author: Arthur Segal
Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corporation
ISBN: 9780822508366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Examines the art of city planning as it was in ancient times, and describes some of the oldest planned cities, now in ruins, of Greece, the Roman Empire, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.
Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corporation
ISBN: 9780822508366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Examines the art of city planning as it was in ancient times, and describes some of the oldest planned cities, now in ruins, of Greece, the Roman Empire, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.
Town Planning in Ancient India
Author: Binode Behari Dutt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Ancient Rome
Author: O. F. Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113484493X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Rome was a huge city. Running it required not only public works and services but also specialised law. This innovative work traces the development of that law and system in the main areas of administration. The book incorporates and develops previous historical and topographical works by relating their findings to the Roman legal framework, building up a portrait of public administration, unusually comprehensive for the ancient world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113484493X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Rome was a huge city. Running it required not only public works and services but also specialised law. This innovative work traces the development of that law and system in the main areas of administration. The book incorporates and develops previous historical and topographical works by relating their findings to the Roman legal framework, building up a portrait of public administration, unusually comprehensive for the ancient world.
Intercultural Urbanism
Author: Dean Saitta
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1786994127
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Cities today are paradoxical. They are engines of innovation and opportunity, but they are also plagued by significant income inequality and segregation by ethnicity, race, and class. These inequalities and segregations are often reinforced by the urban built environment: the planning of space and the design of architecture. This condition threatens attainment of wider social and economic prosperity. In this innovative new study, Dean Saitta explores questions of urban sustainability by taking an intercultural, trans-historical approach to city planning. Saitta uses a largely untapped body of knowledge—the archaeology of cities in the ancient world—to generate ideas about how public space, housing, and civic architecture might be better designed to promote inclusion and community, while also making our cities more environmentally sustainable. By integrating this knowledge with knowledge generated by evolutionary studies and urban ethnography (including a detailed look at Denver, Colorado, one of America’s most desirable and fastest growing ‘destination cities’ but one that is also experiencing significant spatial segregation and gentrification), Saitta’s book offers an invaluable new perspective for urban studies scholars and urban planning professionals.”
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1786994127
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Cities today are paradoxical. They are engines of innovation and opportunity, but they are also plagued by significant income inequality and segregation by ethnicity, race, and class. These inequalities and segregations are often reinforced by the urban built environment: the planning of space and the design of architecture. This condition threatens attainment of wider social and economic prosperity. In this innovative new study, Dean Saitta explores questions of urban sustainability by taking an intercultural, trans-historical approach to city planning. Saitta uses a largely untapped body of knowledge—the archaeology of cities in the ancient world—to generate ideas about how public space, housing, and civic architecture might be better designed to promote inclusion and community, while also making our cities more environmentally sustainable. By integrating this knowledge with knowledge generated by evolutionary studies and urban ethnography (including a detailed look at Denver, Colorado, one of America’s most desirable and fastest growing ‘destination cities’ but one that is also experiencing significant spatial segregation and gentrification), Saitta’s book offers an invaluable new perspective for urban studies scholars and urban planning professionals.”
The Ancient City
Author: Arjan Zuiderhoek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521198356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521198356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.
The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt
Author: Nadine Moeller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107079756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This book presents the latest archaeological evidence that makes a case for Egypt as an early urban society. It traces the emergence of urban features during the Predynastic Period up to the disintegration of the powerful Middle Kingdom state (ca. 3500-1650 BC).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107079756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This book presents the latest archaeological evidence that makes a case for Egypt as an early urban society. It traces the emergence of urban features during the Predynastic Period up to the disintegration of the powerful Middle Kingdom state (ca. 3500-1650 BC).
The City in History
Author: Lewis Mumford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156180351
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
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" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156180351
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
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" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.
Cities of the Mississippi
Author: John William Reps
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826209394
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Spectacular modern aerial photographs of twenty-three of the towns dramatically illustrate changes to the urban scene and demonstrate the lasting influence of the initial city patterns on subsequent growth.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826209394
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Spectacular modern aerial photographs of twenty-three of the towns dramatically illustrate changes to the urban scene and demonstrate the lasting influence of the initial city patterns on subsequent growth.
Rome
Author: Stephen L. Dyson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Stephen L. Dyson has spent a lifetime studying and teaching the history of ancient Rome. That unparalleled knowledge is reflected in his magisterial overview of the Eternal City. Rather than look only at the physical development of the city—its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces—Dyson also explores its social, economic, and cultural histories. This unique approach situates Rome against a background of comparative urban history and theory, allowing Dyson to examine the dynamic society that once thrived there. In his personal effort to reconstruct the city, Dyson populates its streets with the hurried politicians, hawking vendors, and animated students that once lived, worked, and studied there, bringing the ancient city to life for a new generation of students and tourists. Dyson follows Rome as it developed between the third century BC and the fourth century AD, dividing the great megalopolis into distinct neighborhoods and locales. He shows how these communities, each with its own unique customs and colorful inhabitants, eventually grew into the great imperial capital of the Italian Empire. Dyson integrates the full range of sources available—literary, artistic, epigraphic, and archaeological—to create a comprehensive history of the monumental city. In doing so, he offers a dramatic picture of a complex and changing urban center that, despite its flaws, flourished for centuries.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Stephen L. Dyson has spent a lifetime studying and teaching the history of ancient Rome. That unparalleled knowledge is reflected in his magisterial overview of the Eternal City. Rather than look only at the physical development of the city—its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces—Dyson also explores its social, economic, and cultural histories. This unique approach situates Rome against a background of comparative urban history and theory, allowing Dyson to examine the dynamic society that once thrived there. In his personal effort to reconstruct the city, Dyson populates its streets with the hurried politicians, hawking vendors, and animated students that once lived, worked, and studied there, bringing the ancient city to life for a new generation of students and tourists. Dyson follows Rome as it developed between the third century BC and the fourth century AD, dividing the great megalopolis into distinct neighborhoods and locales. He shows how these communities, each with its own unique customs and colorful inhabitants, eventually grew into the great imperial capital of the Italian Empire. Dyson integrates the full range of sources available—literary, artistic, epigraphic, and archaeological—to create a comprehensive history of the monumental city. In doing so, he offers a dramatic picture of a complex and changing urban center that, despite its flaws, flourished for centuries.
ANCIENT TOWN-PLANNING
Author: F. HAVERFIELD
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description