City in History: its Origins, its Transformations, and its Prospects /
Lewis Mumford
- Harcourt Brace International 1989
- 657 páginas : Ilustraciones; fotografías 20 cm
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Sanctuary, village, and stronghold - The crystallization of the city - Ancestral forms and patterns - The nature of the ancient city - Hellenistic absolutism and urbanity - Megalopolis into necropolis - Cloister and Community - Medieval urban housekeeping - Medieval disruption, modern anticipations - The structure of baroque power - Court, parade, and capital - Commercial expansion and urban dissolution - Paleothechnic paradise: coketown - Suburbia and beyond - The myth of megalopolis - Retrospect and prospect.