Main entry:

Girouard, Mark, 1931-2022.

Title & Author:

Cities & people : a social and architectural history / Mark Girouard.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1985.
©1985

Description:

vii, 397 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plan ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-392) and index.
Part 1: the city reborn -- The revival of the west -- Manufacture, trade, and money -- Church and state -- The texture of life -- Bruges and Venice -- Part 2: the city triumphant -- Rome resplendent -- The rise of the north -- Amsterdam and Paris -- The uses of leisure -- A new scale -- The city as export -- Part 3: the exploding city -- Manchester and the industrial city -- London and the growth of the suburb -- Paris and the boulevards -- America and the birth of the skyscraper -- Cities round the world -- Babylon or Jerusalem -- Epilogue -- Notes to the text -- Photographic acknowledgements -- Index.

Summary:

This social and aesthetic history of the world's major cities from antiquity to the present focuses on crucial periods of the cities' past and examines their architecture in light of the men and women who used it.

ISBN:

0300035020
9780300035025
0300039689
9780300039689

Subject:

Cities and towns History.
Architecture and society History.
Social history.
Architecture history
Social Conditions
Histoire sociale.
Architecture et société Histoire.
Villes Histoire.
social history.
Architecture and society.
Cities and towns.
Stadtsoziologie
Steden.
Sociale geschiedenis.
Stedenbouw.
Planejamento Territorial (Historia)
Toshi -- Rekishi.
Social conditions.
Cities Architectural design, to 1984. Social aspects

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134993
Call No.: ID:85-B24431
Status: Available