An edition of The ancient city (2008)

The ancient city

new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world

1st ed.
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An edition of The ancient city (2008)

The ancient city

new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world

1st ed.

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405

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The ancient city: new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world
2008, School for Advanced Research Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff
The city through time and space : transformations of centrality / Colin Renfrew
Early cities : craft workers, kings, and controlling the supernatural / Bruce G. Trigger
Analyzing cities / Mogens Herman Hansen
Other perspectives on urbanism : beyond the disciplinary boundaries / Karl W. Butzer
Between concept and reality : case studies in the development of Roman cities in the Mediterranean / Janet DeLaine
Urban foundation, planning, and sustainability in the Roman northwestern provinces / Michael J. Jones
A tale of two cities : lowland Mesopotamia and highland Anatolia / Elizabeth C. Stone
Royal cities and cult centers, administrative towns, and workmen's settlements in ancient Egypt / Kathryn A. Bard
Indus urbanism : new perspectives on its origin and character / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Stages in the development of "cities" in pre-imperial China / Lothar von Falkenhausen
Early African cities : their role in the shaping of urban and rural interaction spheres / Chapurukha M. Kusimba
Pomp and circumstance before Belize : ancient Maya commerce and the new river conurbation / K. Anne Pyburn
Incidental urbanism : the structure of the prehispanic city in central Mexico / Kenneth G. Hirth
Links in the chain of Inka cities : communication, alliance, and the cultural production of status, value, and power / Craig Morris
Cities and urbanism : central themes and future directions / Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff.

Edition Notes

"This publication results from an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, "Early cities: new perspectives on pre-industrial urbanism," held May 18-20, 2005, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-394) and index.

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Santa Fe, N.M
Series
School for Advanced Research resident scholar series, School for Advanced Research resident scholar series
Genre
Congresses

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Dewey Decimal Class
307.76
Library of Congress
HT114 .A537 2005, HT114.A537 2008, HT114 .A537 2008, HT114 .A784 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 405 p. :
Number of pages
405

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Open Library
OL23178266M
ISBN 10
193469102X
ISBN 13
9781934691021
LCCN
2007048199
OCLC/WorldCat
183392067
Library Thing
8929866
Goodreads
6119257

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