Biography
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
1. Sanctuary, Village, and Stronghold
2. The Crystallization of the City
3. Ancestral Forms and Patterns
4. The Nature of the Ancient City
5. Emergence of the Polis
6. Citizen Versus Ideal City
7. Hellenistic Absolutism and Urbanity
8. Megalopolis into Necropolis
9. Cloister and Community
10. Medieval Urban Housekeeping
11. Medieval Disruptions, Modern Anticipations
12. The Structure of Baroque Power
13. Court, Parade, and Capital
14. Commercing Expansion and Urban Dissolution
15. Paleotechnic Paradise: Coketown
16. Suburbia – And Beyond
17. The Myth of Megalopolis
18. Retrospect and Prospect
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index