The City in Time and Space

by: Southall, A.

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 This ambitious book treats urbanisation and urbanism all over the world, and from the earliest times to the present. Aidan Southall, a pioneer in the study of African cities, discusses the urban centres of ancient Sumeria, Greece and Rome, as well as medieval European cities, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic and Indic cities, colonial cities, and the great metropolises of the twentieth century. Drawing on this historical and comparative perspective, he offers a fresh analysis of world urbanisation in the contemporary period of globalisation. The study emphasises the enduring paradox of the city, which juxtaposes splendid cultural productions with the poverty and deprivation of the majority

List of illustrations
ix (1)
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1 (2)
1 `Writing the city under crisis'
3 (20)
2 Pristine cities
23 (31)
The Old World
23 (22)
The New World
45 (9)
3 Greece and Rome
54 (35)
Greece
54 (15)
Rome
69 (20)
4 Cities of the Feudal mode of production in Europe
89 (36)
5 Asian cities: Asiatic and Feudal modes of production
125 (127)
Imperial China: from city-state to world metropolis
125 (33)
Japanese insular urban development in long isolation
158 (31)
Islamic cities
189 (49)
Indic cities
238 (14)
6 From colonial to Third World cities
252 (54)
Iberian colonization
252 (12)
Proto-capitalist colonization
264 (12)
India
276 (5)
Africa
281 (9)
Latin America
290 (5)
Convergence
295 (4)
Those who escaped
299 (7)
7 The transformation of the city: from the Feudal to the Capitalist mode of production, and on to the apocalypse
306 (114)
Britain
306 (32)
France
338 (10)
Germany: cultural continuity and post-war reconstruction
348 (2)
The United States
350 (55)
Globalization
405 (15)
Notes 420 (3)
References 423 (27)
Index 450

The City in Time and Space

by: Southall, A.

• ISBN-13: 9780521784320 / 978-0-521-78432-0
• ISBN-03: 0521784328 / 0-521-78432-8
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000

Price: 43,00 EURO

1 copy in stock