The Ancient City: New Perspectives on Urbanism in the Old and New World (A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193469102X ISBN 13: 9781934691021

Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008

Synopsis

Cities are so common today that we cannot imagine a world without them. More than half of the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is growing. Yet for most of our history, there were no cities. Why, how, and when did urban life begin? Ancient cities have much to tell us about the social, political, religious, and economic conditions of their times--and also about our own. Ongoing excavations all over the world are enabling scholars to document intra-city changes through time, city-to-city interaction, and changing relations between cities and their hinterlands. The essays in this volume--presented at a Sackler colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences--reveal that archaeologists now know much more about the founding and functions of ancient cities, their diverse trade networks, their heterogeneous plans and layouts, and their various life spans and trajectories.

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This is an outstanding volume that will be a reference source for many years.-- Charles Stanish, University of California, Los Angeles --pre-publication review...This will be obligatory reading not only for all who seek to push forward research on particular cases of urban development, but also for those who seek to build new theoretical constructs. -- Henry Wright, University of Michigan --pre-publication review

The...book is informative and authoritative.... The editors review much literature on the study of cities, especially four models of cities developed by the University of Chicago sociologists working in the 1920s and 1930s --Norman Yoffee, in Reviews in Anthropology, 28:264-289, 2009

The...book is informative and authoritative.... The editors review much literature on the study of cities, especially four models of cities developed by the University of Chicago sociologists working in the 1920s and 1930s --Norman Yoffee, in Reviews in Anthropology, 28:264-289, 2009

The...book is informative and authoritative.... The editors review much literature on the study of cities, especially four models of cities developed by the University of Chicago sociologists working in the 1920s and 1930s --Norman Yoffee, in Reviews in Anthropology, 28:264-289, 2009

The...book is informative and authoritative.... The editors review much literature on the study of cities, especially four models of cities developed by the University of Chicago sociologists working in the 1920s and 1930s --Norman Yoffee, in Reviews in Anthropology, 28:264-289, 2009

About this edition

• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 193469102X
• ISBN 13: 9781934691021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Marcus Joyce, Sabloff Jeremy A.