Urban World History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban World History write by Luc-Normand Tellier. This book was released on 2019-09-14. Urban World History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book seeks to deepen readers’ understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis. The theoretical framework of the approach stems directly from space-economy, and, more generally, from location theory and the theory of urban systems. The author explores a certain logic to be found in world history, and argues that this logic is spatial (in terms of spatial inertia, spatial trends, attractive and repulsive forces, vector fields, etc.) rather than geographical (in terms of climate, precipitation, hydrography). Accordingly, the book puts forward a truly original vision of urban world history, one that will benefit economists, historians, regional scientists, and anyone with a healthy curiosity.
Real Estate and Global Urban History
Real Estate and Global Urban History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Real Estate and Global Urban History write by Alexia Yates. This book was released on 2021-08-26. Real Estate and Global Urban History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Capitalist private property in land and buildings – real estate – is the ground of modern cities, materially, politically, and economically. It is foundational to their development and core to much theoretical work on the urban environment. It is also a central, pressing matter of political contestation in contemporary cities. Yet it remains largely without a history. This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology of (dis)possession and using it to move across scales of analysis, from the local spatiality of particular built spaces to the networks of legal, political, and economic imperatives that constitute property and operate at national and international levels. This combination of territorial embeddedness with more wide-ranging institutional relationships charts a route to an urban history that allows the city to speak as a global agent and artefact without dispensing with the role of states and local circumstance.
The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History write by Peter Clark. This book was released on 2013-02-14. The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time. Written by leading scholar, this is the first detailed survey of the world's cities and towns from ancient times to the present day.
What is Urban History?
What is Urban History? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What is Urban History? write by Shane Ewen. This book was released on 2016-09-12. What is Urban History? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and sources, and has been integral to the rise of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to history since the second half of the twentieth century. Shane Ewen offers an accessible and clearly written guide to the study of urban history for the student, teacher, researcher or general reader who is new to the field and interested in learning about past approaches as well as key themes, concepts and trajectories for future research. He takes a global and comparative viewpoint, combining a discussion of classic texts with the latest literature to illustrate the current debates and controversies across the urban world. The historiography of the field is mapped out by theme, including new topics of interest, with a particular focus on space and social identity, power and governance, the built environment, culture and modernity, and the growth and spread of transnational networking. By discussing a number of historic and fast-growing cities across the world, What is Urban History? demonstrates the importance of the history of urban life to our understanding of the world, both in the present and the future. As a result, urban history remains pivotal for explaining the continued growth of towns and cities in a global context, and is particularly useful for identifying the various problems and solutions faced by fast-growing megacities in the developing world.
The City
The City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The City write by Andrew Lees. This book was released on 2015. The City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The City: A World History depicts the rise of urban centers from the middle of the fourth century BCE to the early twenty-first century. It begins in the ancient Near East, and traces urban growth and its effects throughout Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
