Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader: Cities and Technology: Chant, Colin : 9780415200776: Book: Technology: eCampus.com

Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader has been compiled as a reference source for students and is divided into three main sections, presenting key readings on: Ancient Cities, Medieval and Early Modern Cities, and Pre-Industrial Cities in China and Africa. The book draws on perspectives and writings from across a number of disciplines involved in urban historical studies including archaeology, urban history and historical geography.

List of figures and tables

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Introduction

(2)

Part 1: Ancient Cities

(84)

1 Urban Origins: a review of theories

(8)

Harold Carter

2 Bricks and Brickmaking in Mud and Clay

(3)

P.R.S. Moorey

3 History

(5)

Herodotus

4 Deir el-Medina

(6)

A.R. David

5 Heavy Transport in Classical Antiquity

(8)

A. Burford

6 Ancient Greek Water Supply

(5)

Alfred Burns

7 Lifting in Early Greek Architecture

(6)

J.J. Coulton

8 The Organization and Supply of Roman Building

(11)

James C. Anderson, Jr.

9 The Construction of Fortified Towns

(4)

Vitruvius

10 On the Water Supply of the City of Rome

(3)

Frontinus

11 A Model of Agricultural Change

(10)

Neville Morley

12 The Transformation of the Roman Suburbium

(11)

Neville Morley

Part 2: Medieval and Early Modern Cities

(86)

13 Water Supply in Early Medieval Italy

(3)

Bryan Ward-Perkins

14 From Polis to Madina: urban change in late antique and early Islamic Syria

(5)

Hugh Kennedy

15 Medieval Technology and Social Change

(5)

Lynn White, Jr.

16 Fuelling the City: production and distribution of firewood and fuel in London's region, 1290-1400

104

(16)

James A. Galloway

Derek Keene

Margaret Murphy

17 Road Improvement in Thirteenth-century Pisa

120

(5)

David Herlihy

18 Town and Hinterland in Medieval Scotland

125

(4)

Elizabeth Ewan

19 Building Renaissance Florence: materials, techniques, organization

129

(7)

Richard A. Goldthwaite

20 Repositioning the Vatican Obelisk

136

(6)

Domenico Fontana

21 Urbanization in Early Modern Europe: change or continuity?

142

(3)

Christopher R. Friedrichs

22 Technology and the Built Environment of the Early Modern City

145

(5)

Christopher R. Friedrichs

23 A Golden Age: Innovations in Dutch Cities, 1648-1720

150

(5)

Jonathan Israel

24 Fire-fighting Technology in Early Modern England

155

(2)

Stephen Porter

25 Technological Innovation in Seventeenth-century Paris

157

(6)

Leon Bernard

26 Rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666

163

(3)

John Evelyn

27 Technological Change in a Traditional Society: the case of the desague in colonial Mexico

166

(7)

Louisa Schell Hoberman

Part 3: Pre-industrial Cities in China and Africa

173

(72)

28 Building in The Book of Odes

176

(2)

29 Meanings of Walls and Gates

178

(9)

Nelson I. Wu

30 Water-pipes, Fountains and Clocks

187

(4)

Joseph Needham

Wang Ling

31 Tiles, Bricks and Coal

191

(8)

Sung Ying-Hsing

32 Guilds and Property Development in Hankou

199

(6)

William T. Rowe

33 Fire Brigades and Ferries in Hankou

205

(9)

William T. Rowe

34 A Description of Hankou in 1850

214

(4)

Evariste Regis Huc

35 Hausa Building Techniques

218

(17)

J.C. Moughtin

36 Building-types of the Hausa People: characteristics and formative influences

235

(10)

J.C. Moughtin

Part 4: The Sjoberg Model

245

(13)

37 The Pre-industrial City

246

(5)

Gideon Sjoberg

38 Some Reflections on the Pre-industrial City

251

(7)

Peter Burke

Acknowledgements

258

(3)

Index

261


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