Mumford, Lewis

City in History: its Origins, its Transformations, and its Prospects / Lewis Mumford - Harcourt Brace International 1989 - 657 páginas : Ilustraciones; fotografías 20 cm

Incluye índice y bibliografía

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.



9780156180351


Historia de la Arquitectura.

Ciudades

307.76 / M962c 1981