The ancient city : new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world
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The ancient city : new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world
(School for Advanced Research resident scholar series)
School for Advanced Research Press, 2008
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"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."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-394) and index
"A School for Advanced Research resident scholar book"
Contents of Works
- 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