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The Culture of Cities.
A visionary survey of urbanism from the Middle Ages to the late 1930s, with a new introduction by Thomas Fisher Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford--a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker--The Culture of Citi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Open Road Media
2016.
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| Colección: | Forbidden bookshelf series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Capital
- 1: 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 Utilitarianism
- 4: 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: The Triumph of Iron
- 14: Far from the Madding Crowd
- 15: The Woodlanders
- 16: Reaction
- Chapter IV. Rise and Fall of Megalopolis
- 1: The New Coalition
- 2: The Tentacular Bureaucracy
- 3: Shapeless Giantism
- 4: Means of Congestion
- 5: The Costs of Costiveness
- 6: The Blighted Area.
- 7: The Acceptance of Depletion
- 8: Defacement of Nature
- 9: The Paper Dream City
- 10: The Acquisitiveness of a Sick Metropolis
- 11: Routine and Relaxation
- 12: The Poison of Vicarious Vitality
- 13: A Brief Outline of Hell
- 14: Phenomena of the End
- 15: Cycle of Growth and Decay
- 16: Possibilities of Renewal
- 17: Signs of Salvage
- Chapter V. The Regional Framework of Civilization
- 1: New Patterns of Life and Thought
- 2: The Regional Outlook
- 3: The Region as a Geographic Unit
- 4: The City as a Geographic Fact
- 5: The Earth as Home
- 6: The Landscape: A Cultural Resource
- 7: The Economic Region
- 8: Power as Region-Builder
- Chapter VI. The Politics of Regional Development
- 1: Regionalism and Politics
- 2: The Process of Regionalization
- 3: The Postulates of Regionalism
- 4: Regional Planning: A New Task
- 5: Survey and Plan as Communal Education
- 6: Conditions of Urban Re-building
- 7: The New Method of City Development-Garden City
- Chapter VII. Social Basis of the New Urban Order
- 1: Architecture as Symbol
- 2: Principles of Modern Form-Economy
- 3: The Rôle of Hygiene
- 4: The Prolongation of Youth
- 5: Bi-polar Domesticity
- 6: The Death of the Monument
- 7: Flexibility and Renewal
- 8: The Mission of the Museum
- 9: The Undifferentiated Background
- 10: Individuation and Socialization
- 11: From a Money-Economy to Life-Economy
- 12: Modern Housing by Communities
- 13: The School as Community Nucleus
- 14: The Social Concept of the City
- 15: Contrapuntal Organization
- 16: Principles of Urban Order
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Copyright Page.