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In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time, and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the contemporary world? And what were the key drivers in the roller-coaster of urban change over the millennia - market forces such as trade and industry, rulers and governments, competition and collaboration between cities, or the urban environment and demographic forces? This pioneering comparative work by leading scholars drawn from a range of disciplines offers the first detailed comparative study of urban development from ancient times to the present day. The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History explores not only the main trends in the growth of cities and towns across the world - in Asia and the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Americas - and the different types of cities from great metropolitan centres to suburbs, colonial cities, and market towns, but also many of the essential themes in the making and remaking of the urban world: the role of power, economic development, migration, social inequality, environmental challenge and the urban response, religion and representation, cinema, and urban creativity. Split into three parts covering Ancient cities, the medieval and early-modern period, and the modern and contemporary era, it begins with an introduction by the editor identifying the importance and challenges of research on cities in world history, as well as the crucial outlines of urban development since the earliest cities in ancient Mesopotamia to the present.
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9780199589531 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 6, 2013, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns.
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9780198779377 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 5, 2016, cover price $55.00
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9781616893903 | 1 edition (Princeton Architectural Pr, January 12, 2016), cover price $35.00
People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship on the forces, people, and institutions that have shaped cities from the Middle Ages to the present day. Larkham and Conzen collect new essays in "urban morphology," the people-centered predecessor to contemporary theories of top-down urban design. Shapers of Urban Form focuses on the social processes that create patterns of urban forms in four discrete periods: Pre-modern, early modern, industrial-era and postmodern development. Featuring studies of English, American, Western and Eastern European, and New Zealand urban history and urban form, this collection is invaluable to scholars of urban design and town planning, as well as urban and economic historians.
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9780415738897 | Routledge, June 20, 2014, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: People have designed cities long before there were urban designers.
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9780415738903 | Routledge, August 25, 2014, cover price $59.95
Product Description: This book gives an overview of different factors involved in the emergence and change in early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt; pre-Shang China; Classie horizon Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya Area; and Middle Horizon societies in the Andean Region...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780306454943 | Plenum Pub Corp, November 1, 1996, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: This book gives an overview of different factors involved in the emergence and change in early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt; pre-Shang China; Classie horizon Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya Area; and Middle Horizon societies in the Andean Region.
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9780262013987 | New edition (Mit Pr, April 16, 2010), cover price $30.00
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9783110223897 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, October 31, 2009, cover price $238.00
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9783631588550 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 30, 2009, cover price $60.95
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9780393927276 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2005, cover price $25.45
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9780226034652 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $59.95
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9780226034669 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 18, 1991), cover price $46.00
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9780801838491 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1989), cover price $30.00
Product Description: The Urban Millennium focuses upon the spatial adaptation of cities as a factor in urbanization. Konvitz explores how the evolution of city building strategies has accompanied and facilitated other aspects of urban development. By taking a long historical perspective, he shows that cities were more easily adapted to changing circumstances before and durĀing the industrialization...read more
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9780809312016 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Urban Millennium focuses upon the spatial adaptation of cities as a factor in urbanization.
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9780713163865 | Hodder Arnold, November 1, 1983, cover price $25.00
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