Urban Life in the Distant Past - Smith, Michael E.; - Prospero Internetes Könyváruház

Urban Life in the Distant Past

The Prehistory of Energized Crowding
 
Kiadó: Cambridge University Press
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The book describes a novel approach to early cities that is transdisciplinary, scientific, historical, and based on social-science knowledge.

Hosszú leírás:
In this book, Michael Smith offers a comparative and interdisciplinary examination of ancient settlements and cities. Early cities varied considerably in their political and economic organization and dynamics. Smith here introduces a coherent approach to urbanism that is transdisciplinary in scope, scientific in epistemology, and anchored in the urban literature of the social sciences. His new insight is 'energized crowding,' a concept that captures the consequences of social interactions within the built environment resulting from increases in population size and density within settlements. Smith explores the implications of features such as empires, states, markets, households, and neighborhoods for urban life and society through case studies from around the world. Direct influences on urban life - as mediated by energized crowding-are organized into institutional (top-down forces) and generative (bottom-up processes). Smith's volume analyzes their similarities and differences with contemporary cities, and highlights the relevance of ancient cities for understanding urbanism and its challenges today.

'This book presents a wealth of information on early cities in a synthetic and comparative framework, analyzed with a consistent methodology that embraces clear definitions, quantification, and statistical analysis. For those reasons and others, scholars interested in early cities and urbanism will find the book to be essential reading, and it deserves a wide audience.' Michael W. Love, American Antiquity
Tartalomjegyzék:
1. Premodern cities and the wide urban world; 2. The prehistory of energized crowding; 3. The size of cities and settlements; 4. States, cities, and power; 5. Markets, crafts, and urban life; 6. Top-down insitutions and the scale of urban life; 7. Generative forces and urban life; 8. The value of premodern cities today.