Main entry:

Konvitz, Josef W.

Title & Author:

The urban millennium : the city-building process from the early Middle Ages to the present / Josef W. Konvitz.

Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1985.

Description:

xxi, 265 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-258) and index.
I. The middle ages -- Urbanization in spatial perspective -- The cultural mode of city building -- II. Architecture and urban growth -- The early renaissance -- The evolution of architectural style and the concept of urban growth -- The crisis of architecture and city planning in the eighteenth century -- III. The development of the economic mode -- Port development, engineering, and the economic mode -- City building and economic development: England -- The role of cartography in urban development: France -- IV. The nineteenth century -- The conservative evolution of city building -- City planning in the nineteenth century -- Adaptability and intelligibility in the nineteenth century city -- V. The regulatory mode -- The infrastructure -- A critique of the functionalist paradigm in design -- Cycles of obsolesence and renewal.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0809312018
9780809312016

Subject:

Cities and towns History.
Urbanization History.
Cities and towns Growth History.
City planning History.
Urban geography History.
Géographie urbaine Histoire.
Urbanisation Histoire.
Villes Croissance Histoire.
Urbanisme Histoire.
Villes Histoire.
Urban geography
Cities and towns
Cities and towns Growth
City planning
Urbanization
Geschichte
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Verstädterung
Steden.
Urbanisatie.
Stadsplanning.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Croissance urbaine Histoire.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 88122
Call No.: ID:85-B12600
Status: Available