Screen LibraryMetropolis : a history of the city, humankind's greatest invention /
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Doubleday,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First United States edition. |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 442 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustratons (some color), color maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780385543460 0385543468 |
| Index Number: | HT111 |
| CLC: | C912.81 |
| Call Number: | C912.81/W746 |
| Contents: | Introduction: The metropolitan century -- Dawn of the city: Uruk, 4000-1900 BC -- The Garden of Eden and Sin City: Harappa and Babylon, 2000-539 BC -- Cosmopolis: Athens and Alexandria, 507-30 BC -- Imperial megacity: Rome, 39 BC - AD 537 -- Gastropolis: Baghdad, 537-1258 -- Cities of war: Lübeck, 1226-1491 -- Cities of the world: Lisbon, Malacca, Tenochitlan, Amsterdam, 1492-1666 -- The sociable metropolis: London, 1666-1820 -- The gates of hell? Manchester and Chicago, 1830-1914 -- Paris syndrome: Paris 1830-1914 -- Skyscraper souls: New York, 1899-1939 -- Annihilation: Warsaw, 1939-45 -- Sounds of the suburbs: Los Angeles, 1945-99 -- Megacity: Lagos, 1999-2020. |