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The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Mumford, Lewis
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World Inc., New York, USAYear Published: 1961
Pages: 657pp
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Table of Contents
Preface
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: Hellenistic Absolutism and Urbanity
8: Megalpolis Into Necropolis
9: Cloister and Community
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 Beyond
17: The Myth of Megalopolis
18: Retrospect and Prospect
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Subject Headings
- Administration
- Aggression
- Agriculture
- Ancient Cultures & Civilizations
- Anxiety
- Architecture
- Arena
- Art
- Associations
- Authority
- Autonomy
- Babylon
- Bureaucracy
- Canals
- Capitalism
- Circuses
- Cities
- Citizenship
- Civil Services
- Civilization
- Class
- Colonialism
- Communication
- Communism
- Community
- Community Centres
- Containers
- Control
- Co-operation
- Creativity
- Culture
- Decentralization
- Delinquency
- Democracy
- Despotism
- Dialogue
- Disease
- Economy
- Egyptian History
- Energy
- Engineering
- Environment
- Exploitation
- Factories
- Federalism
- Festivals
- Fire
- Freedom
- Games
- God
- Greek History
- Growth
- Gyms
- Housing
- Hygiene
- Industrial Parks
- Industry
- Insurance
- Irrigation
- Justice
- Labour History
- Leadership
- Libraries
- Lighting
- Market Economy
- Marketplace
- Mega-Cities
- Mercantilism
- Merchants
- Middle Ages
- Mining
- Mothers
- Museums
- Negation
- Neighbourhoods
- Numbers
- Personality
- Plague
- Planning
- Playgrounds
- Political Power
- Pollution
- Population
- Poverty
- Power
- Privacy
- Progress
- Prostitution
- Public Space
- Railway History
- Religion
- Rents
- Revolution
- Security
- Sexual Intercourse
- Shopping Centres
- Slavery
- Space
- Spectacle
- Storage
- Suburbs
- Symbiosis
- Tax Collection
- Technology
- Temples
- Theatre
- Town Planning
- Towns
- Trade
- Traffic
- Transformation
- Transportation
- Urban Growth
- Urban History
- Villages
- Violence
- Walking
- Walls
- War
- Water
- Women
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