Urban World History: An Economic and Geographical PerspectiveDoes the long history of urbanization present identifiable regularities through time and space? Are there long-run trends in the development process? In the complex evolution of human societies are there other determining factors than political decisions, statesmen, wars, economic crises, religions, races, cultures, languages, and sociological values? Is the geographical space a simple setting or a major element of the urban world's evolution? Those are some fundamental questions this book addresses in an original way that mixes historical facts, a world scope, an encyclopedic culture, reflections, and space-economic theory. From Çatalhöyük and Jericho to London, São Paulo, Los Angeles, Johannesburg, Shanghai and Tokyo, it reconstitutes the fascinating journey of the urban evolution. |
Contents
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| 21 | |
Chapter 2 Understandins the First Urban Revolution | 113 |
The Roman and Chinese Empires | 131 |
Chapter 4 Understanding the Dynamics of Urban Evolution | 167 |
Islam Out to Conquer the Great and Asian Corridors | 181 |
Chapter 6 Understanding Topodynamic Inertia | 229 |
Europes Fight for Survival | 243 |
Chapter 11 The Age of Automobile and the Triumph of the American Corridor | 441 |
Chapter 12 Understanding Topodynamic Corridors | 511 |
Chapter 13 Poles and Route s through History | 521 |
Conclusion The Broad Patterns of History | 549 |
Bibliography | 563 |
Appendix 1 Tables of Demographic Evolution | 575 |
Appendix 2 Cities by Types | 593 |
Appendix 3 Silk Road Network Synthesis | 601 |
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