Main entry:

Parker, Philip, 1965- author.

Title & Author:

History of cities in maps / Philip Parker.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Bishopbriggs, Glasgow : Collins, 2024.
©2024

Description:

224 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
Map of city locations -- Introduction -- Cities get healthy : Mohenjo-daro, c. 2500 BC -- City of the tower : Babylon, c. 600 BC -- Theatre of dreams : Athens, c. 400 BC -- Planning the town : Priene, c. 350 BC -- Hero city : Alexandria, 331 BC & 1910 -- The eternal city : Rome, AD 203 -- A tale of two plans : Baghdad, 762 -- City of the Silk Road : Chang'an, c. 800 -- Holy City : Jerusalem, c. 1100 -- Eternal capital : Constantinople, 1422 -- Between the classics and Christianity : Rome, 1474 -- From marsh to megalopolis : Tenochtitlán, 1524 & Mexico City, 2024 -- River city : Paris, 1550 -- City of many faces, Cairo, 1572 -- Renaissance city : Florence, 1572 -- City of the panther : Cusco, 1574 -- The oldest city in the world? : Damascus, 1575 -- Trading Leviathan : Venice, 1585 -- Trading state : Hamburg, 1585 -- The perfect city : Palmanova, 1598 -- Viking port : Dublin, 1610 -- An imperial city find its way : Kyoto, c 1626 -- Northern powerhouse : Stockholm, 1640 -- Half the world in a square : Isfahan, 1657 -- War and disorder : New York, 1660 -- Palace as power : Moscow, 1662 -- A city forged in fire : London, 1680 -- Two hundred years of solitude : Nagasaki, 1680 -- From company town to regional powerhouse : Jakarta, 1681 -- Global island : Mumbai, 1685 -- Moderation and power : Amsterdam, 1701 -- Heart of the Habsburgs : Vienna, 1710 -- Imperial centre : Madrid, c. 1715 -- The politics of language : Québec City, 1744 -- A capital deposed : St. Petersburg, 1753 -- Earthquake city : Lisbon, 1755 & 1833 -- The cost of prosperity : Liverpool, 1765 -- Athens of the north : Edinburgh, 1765 -- The end of enlightenment : Berlin, 1773 -- Cradle of revolution : Boston, 1775 -- Back to nature : Seoul, c. 1795 -- Birth of a capital : Washington, DC, 1795 -- From garden to city : Cape Town, 1795 -- Let there be light : London, 1807 -- Possession & dispossession : Sydney, 1814 & 2024 -- Defenestrations & liberations : Prague, 1816 -- City of parklands : Adelaide, 1837 -- The power of industry : Manchester, 1851 -- City on top of the world : Bogotá, 1852 -- Remodeling a city : Paris, 1857 -- Africa's largest city : Lagos, 1887 & 2024 -- The power of a name : Beijing, 1888 -- City of angels, city of dreams : Los Angeles, 1891 -- Skyscraper city : Chicago, 1892 -- Fever dreams : Rio de Janeiro, 1895 -- New for old : Delhi, 1912 -- Caught between two worlds : Kyiv, 1914 -- The plan meets reality : Brasília, 1960 & 2010 -- Divided cities : Berlin, 1961 & Nicosia, 1974 -- Underground city : Tokyo, 1964 -- Giant in the desert : Dubai, 1984 & 2024 -- Informal city : Dharavi, Mumbai, 2011 -- The power of nature : Christchurch, 2011 -- Megacity : Chongqing, 2023 & 1944 -- Future city : Oceanix Busan.

Summary:

"From cities founded on sacred places, ideas and power, to early attempts at town planning and later developments such as public transport and skyscrapers, maps have always played a crucial role in documenting urban progress. Spanning more than 4,500 years, this book expertly curates over 70 historical maps which together tell the fascinating story of human civilization. Maps include: Mohenjo-daro c. 2500 BC, Rome AD 203, Baghdad 762, Constantinople 1422, Tenochtitlán 1524, New York 1660, Liverpool 1765, Adelaide 1837, Brasília 1960, Christchurch 2011."-- Back cover.

ISBN:

9780008671815 (hardcover)
0008671818 (hardcover)
ePub ebook
9780008729820

Subject:

City and town life History Maps.
City planning History Maps.
Human geography History Maps.
Sociology, Urban History Maps.
Cartography History.
Historical geography Maps.
Cartographie Histoire.
HISTORY / Social History.

Form/genre:

thematic maps.
Thematic maps.
Cartes thématiques.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 324107
Call No.: 324107
Copy: 1
Status: Available