History of urban form

Morris, A.E., 1996, History of urban form, Prentice Hall, Harlow

  • Author : Morris, A.E.
  • Year : 1996
  • Publisher : Prentice Hall
  • Publisher's Location : Harlow
  • ISBN : 0-582-30154-8
  • Pages : 444
  • Edition : 3
  • Abstract : This book looks at the origins to the industrial revolution of European and American cities. This expanded edition now provides a description of organic growth and planned towns and a discussion of determining factors in urban formation. Further study has been made of European and American based cities based on 19th-century cartography and the book includes two chapters on the urban history of Spain and Latin America and Islamic cities of the Middle East. CONTENTS: 1. The Early Cities. 2. Greek City States. 3. Rome and the Empire. 4. Medieval Towns. 5. The Renaissance: Italy sets a pattern. 6. France: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. 7. A European Survey. 8. Britain: Sixteenth to mid-nineteenth. 9. Spain and Her Empire. 10. Urban USA. 11. Islamic Cities of the Middle East. Appendix A. China. B. Japan. C. Indian Mandelas. D. Indonesia. E. Comparative Plans of Cities.
  • Comments : KEYWORDS: landscape architecture, landscape planning, history, urban development.