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Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015022660545
Author : Hugh McLeod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134867127
Europe in the nineteenth century saw spectacular growth in the size and number of cities and in the proportion of the population living in urban areas. Many contemporaries thought that this social revolution would bring about an equally dramatic change in religious life. This book, written by an international team of specialists, provides an authoritative account of religious change, both at the institutional and popular level, in Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox cities, in seven European countries.
Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019892412
This book provides a detailed analysis of modern civilization, viewed in its relation to intelligence, morals, and religion. It offers a thought-provoking exploration of the challenges facing our society today and the role of intellectual, ethical, and spiritual values in shaping our future. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500773581
A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together. From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of humankind Babylon and Nineveh, Athens and Rome, Istanbul and Venice, Timbuktu and Samarkand, their very names are redolent both of history and romance. The Great Cities in History tells their story from early Uruk and Thebes to Jerusalem and Alexandria. Then the fabulous cities of the first millennium: Damascus and Baghdad in the days of the Caliphates, Teotihuacan and Maya Tikal in Central America, and Changan, capital of Tang Dynasty China. The medieval world saw the rise of powerful cities: Palermo and Paris in Europe, Benin in Africa and Angkor of the Khmer. In the early modern world, we journey to Islamic Isfahan and Agra, and Prague and Amsterdam in their heyday, before arriving at the phenomenon of the contemporary mega-city: London and New York, Tokyo and Barcelona, Los Angeles and São Paulo. A galaxy of more than fifty distinguished authors, including Jan Morris, Colin Thubron, Simon Schama, Orlando Figes, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Misha Glenny, Adam Zamoyski and A. N. Wilson, evoke the character of each place and explain the reasons for its success, seeing what each city would have been like during its golden age.
Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : BL:A0022538814
Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : NWU:35556034324806
Author : Anthony M. Tung
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015053390202
Both epic and intimate, this is the story of the fight to save the world’s architectural and cultural heritage as it is embodied in the extraordinary buildings and urban spaces of the great cities of Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Never before have the complexities and dramas of urban preservation been as keenly documented as inPreserving the World’s Great Cities. In researching this important work, Anthony Tung traveled throughout the world to visit remarkable buildings and districts in China, Italy, Greece, the U.S., Japan, and elsewhere. Everywhere he found both the devastating legacy of war, economics, and indifference and the accomplishments of people who have worked and sometimes risked their lives to preserve and renew the most meaningful urban expressions of the human spirit. From Singapore’s blind rush to become the most modern city of the East to Warsaw’s poignant and heroic effort to resurrect itself from the Nazis’ systematic campaign of physical and cultural obliteration, from New York and Rome to Kyoto and Cairo, we see the city as an expression of the best and worst within us. This is essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs and Witold Rybczynski and everyone who is concerned about urban preservation.
Author : Hugh McLeod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134867134
Written by an international team of specialists, this book provides an authoritative account of religious change in seven European countries, both at the institutional & popular level, in Catholic, Protestant & Orthodox cities.
Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : PRNC:32101068784774
Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001921725
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 037169891X
Author : Andrew Lees
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199859528
The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome stand out both politically and culturally. With the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, European cities entered into a long period of waning and deterioration. But elsewhere, great cities-among them, Constantinople, Baghdad, Chang'an, and Tenochtitlán-thrived. In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, urban growth resumed in Europe, giving rise to cities like Florence, Paris, and London. This urban growth also accelerated in parts of the world that came under European control, such as Philadelphia in the nascent United States. As the Industrial Revolution swept through in the nineteenth century, cities grew rapidly. Their expansion resulted in a slew of social problems and political disruptions, but it was accompanied by impressive measures designed to improve urban life. Meanwhile, colonial cities bore the imprint of European imperialism. Finally, the book turns to the years since 1914, guided by a few themes: the impact of war and revolution; urban reconstruction after 1945; migration out of many cities in the United States into growing suburbs; and the explosive growth of "megacities" in the developing world.
Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102030829X
The Age of Great Cities provides a historical and philosophical overview of modern society. Drawing on insights from religion, philosophy, and social science, the book offers a compelling analysis of the forces shaping our world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070892160
Author : Edward Glaeser,David Cutler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593297698
One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity’s greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and connection, the loom on which the fabric of civilization is woven. But cities now stand at a crossroads. During the global COVID crisis, cities grew silent as people worked from home—if they could work at all. The normal forms of socializing ground to a halt. How permanent are these changes? Advances in digital technology mean that many people can opt out of city life as never before. Will they? Are we on the brink of a post-urban world? City life will survive but individual cities face terrible risks, argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, and a wave of urban failure would be absolutely disastrous. In terms of intimacy and inspiration, nothing can replace what cities offer. Great cities have always demanded great management, and our current crisis has exposed fearful gaps in our capacity for good governance. It is possible to drive a city into the ground, pandemic or not. Glaeser and Cutler examine the evolution that is already happening, and describe the possible futures that lie before us: What will distinguish the cities that will flourish from the ones that won’t? In America, they argue, deep inequities in health care and education are a particular blight on the future of our cities; solving them will be the difference between our collective good health and a downward spiral to a much darker place.
