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Book 3000  three Thousand  Years of Urban Growth

Download or read book 3000 three Thousand Years of Urban Growth written by Tertius Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 3000 Years of Urban Growth

Download or read book 3000 Years of Urban Growth written by Tertius Chandler and published by New York : Academic Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 3000  three Thousand  Years of Urban Growth

Download or read book 3000 three Thousand Years of Urban Growth written by Tertius Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 3000 Years of Urban Growth

Download or read book 3000 Years of Urban Growth written by Tertius Chandler and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3000 Years of Urban Growth compiles urban population data acquired from large cities at different points in time throughout the centuries. This book describes the sources and methods used in historical urban studies, including an evaluation of the total size estimates, area, institutional factors, and volume of local activity. Illustrations of maps that locate large cities from several time tables and regions of the world are also provided. This text likewise covers the data sheets for ancient cities from 1360 B.C. to 200 B.C. and 100 A.D. to 622 A.D. The data sheets from 800 to 1850 A.D. provide estimates for countries such as Italy, Afghanistan, France, Brazil, India, and Russia. Other topics include the world's largest cities from 430 B.C. to200 B.C., top six cities in each continent from 800 to 1850, and whereabouts of unfamiliar cities not shown on the maps. This publication is a good source for sociologists, historians, and researchers interested in population studies.

Book Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth

Download or read book Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth written by Tertius Chandler and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete revision of Three Thousand Years of Urban Growth by the same author, this book covers the populations of cities and their suburbs from 2250 BC to 1975. It presents: continental tables and maps; data sheets for ancient cities; and tables and maps of the world's largest cities.

Book Three Thousand Years of Urban Growth

Download or read book Three Thousand Years of Urban Growth written by Tertius Chandler and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Measure of Civilization

Download or read book The Measure of Civilization written by Ian Morris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses four factors--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology and war-making capacity--to attempt to show which world regions were the most powerful throughout all of human history.

Book Urban World History

Download or read book Urban World History written by Luc-Normand Tellier and published by PUQ. This book was released on 2009 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Urban World History".

Book Interpreting the City

Download or read book Interpreting the City written by Truman Asa Hartshorn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1992-04-16 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition has been rewritten to provide additional coverage of topics such as urban development and third world cities as well as social issues including homelessness, jobs/housing mismatch and transportation disadvantages. It has also been updated with 1990 Census data.

Book The Scale of Urban Change Worldwide 1950 2000 and Its Underpinnings

Download or read book The Scale of Urban Change Worldwide 1950 2000 and Its Underpinnings written by David Satterthwaite and published by IIED. This book was released on 2005 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Transition to a Predominantly Urban World and its Underpinnings

Download or read book The Transition to a Predominantly Urban World and its Underpinnings written by David Satterthwaite and published by IIED. This book was released on 2007 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 300 Years of Urban Growth

Download or read book 300 Years of Urban Growth written by Tertius Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cities and the Making of Modern Europe  1750 1914

Download or read book Cities and the Making of Modern Europe 1750 1914 written by Andrew Lees and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War.

Book Crescendo of the Virtuoso

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  • Author : Paul Metzner
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-07-26
  • ISBN : 0520414276
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Crescendo of the Virtuoso written by Paul Metzner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.

Book Adapting to Climate Change in Urban Areas

Download or read book Adapting to Climate Change in Urban Areas written by David Satterthwaite and published by IIED. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses the possibilities and constraints for adaptation to climate change in urban areas in low- and middle-income nations. These contain a third of the world's population and a large proportion of the people and economic activities most at risk from sea-level rise and from the heatwaves, storms and floods whose frequency and/or intensity climate change is likely to increase. Section I outlines both the potentials for adaptation and the constraints. Section II discusses the scale of urban change. Section III considers direct and indirect impacts of climate change on urban areas and which nations, cities and population groups are particularly at risk. This highlights how prosperous, well-governed cities could generally adapt, but most of the world's urban population lives in cities or smaller urban centres ill-equipped for adaptation. A key part of adaptation concerns infrastructure and buildings - but much of the urban population in Africa, Asia and Latin America lack the infrastructure to adapt. Most international agencies have long refused to support urban programmes, especially those that address these problems. Section IV discusses innovations by urban governments and community organizations and in financial systems that address such problems, including the relevance of recent innovations in disaster-risk reduction for adaptation. It notes how few city and national governments are taking any action on adaptation. Section V discusses how local innovation in adaptation can be encouraged and supported at national scale, and the funding needed to support this. Section VI considers the mechanisms for financing this and the larger ethical challenges that achieving adaptation raises - especially the fact that most climate-change-related urban (and rural) risks are in low-income nations with the least adaptive capacity, including many that have contributed very little to greenhouse-gas emissions.

Book European Urbanization  1500 1800

Download or read book European Urbanization 1500 1800 written by Jan de Vries and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.