Cities in Civilization - Hardcover

Hall, Peter

 
9780394587325: Cities in Civilization
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394587324 ISBN 13: 9780394587325
Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

The world's most eminent urban historian captures the distinctive qualities of twenty-one cities at their peak, from Renaissance Florence to turn-of-the-century Paris to 1950s Memphis, in an illuminating study featuring forty-eight pages of photographs. 17,500 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sir Peter Hall is Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London, and Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including The World Cities and Cities Tomorrow, and is a former Special Advisor on Planning to the Secretary of State for the Environment. He lives in London.

Aus dem Klappentext

2,500 years, Cities in Civilization is a tribute to the city as the birthplace of Western civilization. Drawing on the contributions of economists and geographers, of cultural, technological, and social historians, Sir Peter Hall examines twenty-one cities at their greatest moments. Hall describes the achievements of these golden ages and outlines the precise combinations of forces -- both universal and local -- that led to each city's belle epoque.

Hall identifies four distinct expressions of civic innovation: artistic growth, technological progress, the marriage of culture and technology, and solutions to evolving problems. Descriptions of Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan London, and nineteenth-century Vienna bring to life those seedbeds of artistic and intellectual creativity. Explorations of Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, of Henry Ford's Detroit, and of Palo Alto at the dawn of the computer age highlight centers of technological advances.

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Verlag
Pantheon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0394587324
ISBN 13 
9780394587325
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
1169
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