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Mumford Lewis |
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Titolo |
The culture of cities / / Lewis Mumford ; with an introduction by Thomas Fisher ; cover design by Mauricio Diaz |
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New York, New York : , : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., , 2016 |
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©1970 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (457 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cities and towns |
City planning |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; Series Introduction; Introduction; Preface to the 1970 Edition; Introduction; Chapter I. Protection and the Medieval Town; 1: Stripping Off the Medieval Myth; 2: The Need for Protection; 3: The "Increase of Population and Wealth"; 4: Lordly Scadders and Medieval New Edens; 5: Domination of the Church; 6: The Service of the Guild; 7: Medieval Domesticity; 8: Hygiene and Sanitation; 9: Principles of Medieval Town Planning; 10: Control of Growth and Expansion; 11: The Stage and the Drama; 12: What Overthrew the Medieval City? |
Chapter II. Court, Parade, and Capital1: The Afterglow of the Middle Ages; 2: Territory and City; 3: Instruments of Coercion; 4: War as City-Builder; 5: The Ideology of Power; 6: Movement and the Avenue; 7: The Shopping Parade; 8: The New Divinity; 9: Position of the Palace; 10: Influence of the Palace on the City; 11: Bedroom and Salon; 12: The Muddle of Speculative Overcrowding; 13: The Baroque Plan; 14: Architectural Forms; 15: What Saved the Olympians; 16: Fulfillment and Renewal; Chapter III. The Insensate Industrial Town; 1: The Displacement of Population; 2: Mechanization and Abbau |
3: The Postulates of Utilitarianism4: The Technics of Agglomeration; 5: Factory and Slum; 6: Houses of Ill-Fame; 7: Resistance to Barbarism; 8: The Minimum of Life; 9: Paleotechnic Drama; 10: The Non-Plan of the Non-City; 11: A Close-up of Coketown; 12: The Old Curiosity Shop; 13: |
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