The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415200776 ISBN 13: 9780415200776

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

The Pre-Industrial Cities Reader is designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the accompanying Pre-Industrial Cities: Open University textbook, in the same series. Compiled as a reference source for students, this reader is divided into three main sections, presenting key readings on: Ancient Cities, Medieval and Early Modern Cities, and Pre-Industrial Cities in China and Africa. Among the technologies discussed are: agricaultural innovations such as the heavy plough, water transport, the medieval road revolution, the first urban public transport, aqueducts, building materials such as brick and Roman concrete, weaponry and fortifications, water clocks, street lighting, and fire-fighting. Among the cities covered are: Uruk, Babylon, Thebes, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Siena, Florence, Antwerp, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Hangzhou, Beijing and Hankou.

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About the Author

Colin Chant

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415200776
• ISBN 13: 9780415200776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Chant Colin