The ancient city : new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world / edited by Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff.
2008
307.76 A789a 2008
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Title
The ancient city : new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world / edited by Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff.
Meeting Name
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
193469102X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781934691021 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781934691021 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 405 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Call Number
307.76 A789a 2008
System Control No.
(OCoLC)183392067
(OCoLC)183392067
(OCoLC)183392067
Note
"This publication results from an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, "Early cities: new perspectives on pre-industrial urbanism," held May 18-20, 2005, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-394) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction / Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff
The city through time and space : transformations of centrality / Colin Renfrew
Early cities : craft workers, kings, and controlling the supernatural / Bruce G. Trigger
Analyzing cities / Mogens Herman Hansen
Other perspectives on urbanism : beyond the disciplinary boundaries / Karl W. Butzer
Between concept and reality : case studies in the development of Roman cities in the Mediterranean / Janet DeLaine
Urban foundation, planning, and sustainability in the Roman northwestern provinces / Michael J. Jones
A tale of two cities : lowland Mesopotamia and highland Anatolia / Elizabeth C. Stone
Royal cities and cult centers, administrative towns, and workmen's settlements in ancient Egypt / Kathryn A. Bard
Indus urbanism : new perspectives on its origin and character / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Stages in the development of "cities" in pre-imperial China / Lothar von Falkenhausen
Early African cities : their role in the shaping of urban and rural interaction spheres / Chapurukha M. Kusimba
Pomp and circumstance before Belize : ancient Maya commerce and the new river conurbation / K. Anne Pyburn
Incidental urbanism : the structure of the prehispanic city in central Mexico / Kenneth G. Hirth
Links in the chain of Inka cities : communication, alliance, and the cultural production of status, value, and power / Craig Morris
Cities and urbanism : central themes and future directions / Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff.
The city through time and space : transformations of centrality / Colin Renfrew
Early cities : craft workers, kings, and controlling the supernatural / Bruce G. Trigger
Analyzing cities / Mogens Herman Hansen
Other perspectives on urbanism : beyond the disciplinary boundaries / Karl W. Butzer
Between concept and reality : case studies in the development of Roman cities in the Mediterranean / Janet DeLaine
Urban foundation, planning, and sustainability in the Roman northwestern provinces / Michael J. Jones
A tale of two cities : lowland Mesopotamia and highland Anatolia / Elizabeth C. Stone
Royal cities and cult centers, administrative towns, and workmen's settlements in ancient Egypt / Kathryn A. Bard
Indus urbanism : new perspectives on its origin and character / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Stages in the development of "cities" in pre-imperial China / Lothar von Falkenhausen
Early African cities : their role in the shaping of urban and rural interaction spheres / Chapurukha M. Kusimba
Pomp and circumstance before Belize : ancient Maya commerce and the new river conurbation / K. Anne Pyburn
Incidental urbanism : the structure of the prehispanic city in central Mexico / Kenneth G. Hirth
Links in the chain of Inka cities : communication, alliance, and the cultural production of status, value, and power / Craig Morris
Cities and urbanism : central themes and future directions / Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff.
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Series
School for Advanced Research resident scholar series.
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