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

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9781934691021: The Ancient City: New Perspectives on Urbanism in the Old and New World (A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book)

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?

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Review

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

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