Landscapes of preindustrial urbanism
| Körperschaft: |
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture.
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Farhat, Georges
, [HerausgeberIn]
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Washington, D.C. :
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
2020.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xi, 314 pages: illustrations ; 28 cm. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Bridging remote sensing and worldviews: urban landscapes from a preindustrial perspective / Georges Farhat
- PART I. EARTHWORKS: Space and structure in early Mesopotamian cities / Jason A. Ur
- Landscape change and ceremonial praxis in medieval Rome - from the Via Triumphalis to the Via Papalis / Hendrik W. Dey
- What constituted Cahokian urbanism? / Timothy R. Pauketat
- PART II. WATERSCAPES: Hydraulic landscapes of Roman and Byzantine cities / Jordan Pickett
- Monsoon landscapes and flexible provisioning in the preindustrial cities of the Indian subcontinent / Monica l. Smith
- The Phnom Kulen capital - a singular and early case of landscape construction in ancient Cambodia / Jean-Baptiste Chevance
- The weave of natural and cultural ecology - Ekamrakshetra, the historic temple town of Bhubaneswar, India / Priyaleen Singh
- PART III. FORESTRY: Xingu garden cities - Amazonian urban landscapes, or what? / Michael Heckenberger
- "when the king breaks a town he builds another" - politics, slavery, and constructed urban landscapes in tropical West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe.
