Extraordinary Cities
Subtitle: Millennia of Moral Syndromes, World-systems and City/State Relations
By: Peter J. Taylor, Northumbria University, UK
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781781954805
Subjects: Cities and towns; History; Sustainable urban development; Civilization
Description: Accepting that cities are extraordinary, this book provides an original city-centred narrative of human creativity, past, present and future.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages380-405)and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface Part I: Setting Down and Setting Up 1. A Cities' Perspective 2. Conceptual Toolkits Part II: Narrative I: Beginning Conjectures 3. City and State Beginnings: Western Asia's Great Creative Interlude 4. Geographies of Beginning Creative Interludes Part III: Narrative II: World-systems 5. Normal History 6. Making the Modern World-system: Western Europe's Great Creative Interlude Part IV: Narrative III: Prospective Conjectures; title: Where We Are and Where Are We Going? 7. Working in an Urban World 8. Towards Green Networks of Cities for the Twenty First Century.