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The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects 1 edition

By Lewis Mumford

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The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects.
[1st ed.]

Published 1961 by Harcourt, Brace & World in New York .
Written in English.

	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 beyond
	17. The myth of megalopolis
	18. Retrospect and prospect

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 579-634.

Also issued online.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class	301.36
Library of Congress	HT111 .M8

The Physical Object

Pagination	xi, 657 p.
Number of pages	657

ID Numbers

Open Library	OL5821442M
Internet Archive	cityinhistoryits00mumf
LC Control Number	61007689
OCLC/WorldCat	964905
Library Thing	89752

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