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

edited by Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff

(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

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