Title & Author:

The pre-industrial cities and technology reader / edited by Colin Chant.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge in association with the Open University, ©1999.

Description:

ix, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Series:

The cities and technology series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Urban origins: a review of theories / Harold Carter -- 2. Bricks and brickmaking in mud and clay / P.R.S. Moorey -- 3. History / Herodotus -- 4. Deir el-Medina / A.R. David -- 5. Heavy transport in classical antiquity / A. Burford -- 6. Ancient Greek water supply / Alfred Burns -- 7. Lifting in early Greek architecture / J.J. Coulton -- 8. The organization and supply of Roman building / James C. Anderson, Jr. -- 9. The construction of fortified towns / Vitruvius -- 10. On the water supply of the City of Rome / Frontinus -- 11. A model of agricultural change / Neville Morley -- 12. The transformation of the Roman suburbium / Neville Morley.
13. Water supply in early Medieval Italy / Bryan Ward-Perkins -- 14. From Polis to Madina: urban change in late antique and early Islamic Syria / Hugh Kennedy -- 15. Medieval technology and social change / Lynn White, Jr. -- 16. Fuelling the city: production and distribution of firewood and fuel in London's region, 1290-1400 / James A. Galloway, Derek Keene and Margaret Murphy -- 17. Road improvement in 13th century Pisa / David Herlihy -- 18. Town and hinterland in medieval Scotland / Elizabeth Ewan -- 19. Building renaissance Florence: materials, techniques, organization / Richard A. Goldthwaite -- 20. Repositioning the Vacitan obelisk / Domenico Fontana -- 21. Urbanization in early modern Europe: change or continuity? / Christopher R. Friedrichs -- 22. Technology and the build environment of the early modern city / Christopher R. Friedrichs -- 23. A golden age: innovations in Dutch cities, 1648-1720 -- 24. Fire-fighting technology in early modern England / Stephen Porter -- 25. Technological innovation in 17th century Paris / Leon Bernard -- 26. Rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666 / John Evelyn -- 27. Technological change in a traditional society: the case of the desagüe in colonial Mexico / Louisa Schell Hoberman.
28. Building in The Book of Odes -- 29. Meanings of walls and gates / Nelson I. Wu -- 30. Water-pipes, fountains and clocks / Joseph Needham and Wang Ling -- 31. Tiles, bricks and coal / Sung Ying-Hsing -- 32. Guilds and property development in Hankou / William T. Rowe -- 33. Fire brigades and ferries in Hankou / William T. Rowe -- 34. A description of Hankou in 1850 / Évariste Régis Huc -- 35. Hausa building techniques / J.C. Moughtin -- 36. Building-types of the Hausa people: characteristics and formative influences / J.C. Moughtin -- 37. The pre-industrial city / Gideon Sjoberg -- 38. Some reflections on the pre-industrial city / Peter Burke.

Summary:

"The Pre-industrial Cities and Technology Reader is designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the accompanying Pre-industrial Cities, Open University textbook, in the same series. Compiled as a reference source for students, this reader is divided into three main sections, presenting key readings on: Ancient Cities, Medieval and Early Modern Cities, and Pre-industrial Cities in China and Africa. Among the technologies discussed are: agricultural innovations such as the heavy plough, water transport, the medieval road revolution, the first urban public transport, aqueducts, building materials such as brick and Roman concrete, weaponry and fortifications, water clocks, street lighting and fire-fighting. Among the cities covered are: Uruk, Babylon, Thebes, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Siena, Florence, Antwerp, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Hangzhou, Beijing and Hankou."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415200776 (hardcover)
9780415200776 (hardcover)
0415200784 (pbk.)
9780415200783 (pbk.)

Subject:

Technology Social aspects History.
Technologie Aspect social Histoire.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
Technology Social aspects.
Stadtsoziologie
Städtebau
Vorindustrielle Gesellschaft
Technologie.
Steden.
Voorindustriële maatschappij.
Cities and towns History.
Urbanization History.
Urbanisme Histoire.
Construction, Technique de la Histoire.
Technique Aspect social.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Chant, Colin.
Cities and technology series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 210145
Call No.: T14.5 .P74 1999
Status: Available