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The city in history : its origins, its transformations, and its prospects / by Lewis Mumford.

By: Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 [author.].
Series: Harvest book: Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt, Inc., [1989]Copyright date: �1989Description: xi, 657 pages, 64 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780156180351; 0156180359.Subject(s): Cities and towns -- History | Urbanization | Cities and towns -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 307.76
Contents:
Sanctuary, village, and stronghold -- The crystallization of the city -- Ancestral forms and patterns -- The nature of the ancient city -- Emergence of the polis -- Citizen versus ideal city -- Hellenistic absolutism and urbanity -- Megalopolis into necropolis -- Cloister and community -- Medieval urban housekeeping -- Medieval disruptions, modern anticipations -- The structure of Baroque power -- Court, parade, and capital -- Commercial expansion and urban dissolution -- Paleotechnic paradise : Coketown -- Suburbia- and beyond -- The myth of megalopolis -- Retrospect and prospect.
Awards: Winner of the National Book Award
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Originally published: 1961.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-634) and index.

Sanctuary, village, and stronghold -- The crystallization of the city -- Ancestral forms and patterns -- The nature of the ancient city -- Emergence of the polis -- Citizen versus ideal city -- Hellenistic absolutism and urbanity -- Megalopolis into necropolis -- Cloister and community -- Medieval urban housekeeping -- Medieval disruptions, modern anticipations -- The structure of Baroque power -- Court, parade, and capital -- Commercial expansion and urban dissolution -- Paleotechnic paradise : Coketown -- Suburbia- and beyond -- The myth of megalopolis -- Retrospect and prospect.

Winner of the National Book Award

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