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Cities & people : a social and architectural history
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This social and aesthetic history of the world's major cities from antiquity to the present focuses on crucial periods of the cities' past and examines their architecture in light of the men and wo...
This social and aesthetic history of the world's major cities from antiquity to the present focuses on crucial periods of the cities' past and examines their architecture in light of the men and women who used it.
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- Creator
- Mark Girouard
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1985
- ©1985
- Physical Details
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- vii, 397 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plan ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 0300035020, 9780300035025, 0300039689, 9780300039689
- OCLC
- ocm12656209
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-392) and index.
- Part 1: the city reborn -- The revival of the west -- Manufacture, trade, and money -- Church and state -- The texture of life -- Bruges and Venice -- Part 2: the city triumphant -- Rome resplendent -- The rise of the north -- Amsterdam and Paris -- The uses of leisure -- A new scale -- The city as export -- Part 3: the exploding city -- Manchester and the industrial city -- London and the growth of the suburb -- Paris and the boulevards -- America and the birth of the skyscraper -- Cities round the world -- Babylon or Jerusalem -- Epilogue -- Notes to the text -- Photographic acknowledgements -- Index
Subjects
- Cities and towns -- History.
- Architecture and society -- History.
- Social history.
- Architecture -- history
Medical Subject Heading
- Social Conditions
Medical Subject Heading
- social history.
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