First Cities - Planning Lessons for the 21st Century

This Element describes and synthesizes archaeological knowledge of humankind's first cities for the purpose of strengthening a comparative understanding of urbanism across space and time. Case studies are drawn from ancient Mesopotamia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Philosophical and Theoretical Orientation; 3. Development of First Cities in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe, and Africa; 4. Expressions of Ancient Urbanism in Mesoamerica and North America; 5. Planning Lessons for the 21st Century City. 6. Summary and Conclusion; References.

Summary

This Element describes and synthesizes archaeological knowledge of humankind's first cities for the purpose of strengthening a comparative understanding of urbanism across space and time. Case studies are drawn from ancient Mesopotamia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Product details

• Authors: Dean Saitta, Dean (University of Denver) Saitta
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009475914
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0947591-4
• No. of pages: 94
• Series: Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, BCE to c 500 CE, Archaeological Theory, c 10 000 to c 4000 BCE