Intercultural Urbanism: City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day 1786994127, 9781786994127

Intercultural Urbanism: City Planning From the Ancient World to the Modern Day 9781350220799, 9781786994097

Cities today are paradoxical. They are engines of innovation and opportunity, but they are also plagued by significant i

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Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850 9780300230390

A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the

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The Artist as Murderer: An Enduring Legend from Ancient Greece to the Modern Day 1476683956, 9781476683959

The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story g

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Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism 9780812205282

Civitas by Design takes a critical look at the history of the use of urban planning to strengthen civic ties in the Unit

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The transition from the ancient to the medieval world

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Reviving Cicero in Drama: From the Ancient World to the Modern Stage 9781788317757, 9781786735584

The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical and philosophical writings have made an inescapable im

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The Epic City: Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome 0674023749, 9780674023741

As Greek and Trojan forces battled in the shadow of Troy's wall, Hephaistos created a wondrous, ornately decorated

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History of the City of Gaza: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 9780231883719

A brief history of the city of Gaza from its founding to 1900. It also describes the people and culture of Gaza, the cul

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A History of Market Performance: From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World 0367867303, 9780367867300

This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial

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History of the City of Gaza: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 9781463213053

Particularly valuable to students of archaeology in the ancient Near East are the old accounts of cities uncovered by ar

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