A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Cities and Suburbs
This chapter contains sections titled:
Cities through the Nineteenth Century
Twentieth‐Century Cities
Suburbs and Nature
Conclusion
References
Cities and Suburbs
This chapter contains sections titled:
Cities through the Nineteenth Century
Twentieth‐Century Cities
Suburbs and Nature
Conclusion
References
Cities and Suburbs
Sackman, Douglas Cazaux (editor) / Sellers, Chris (author)
2010-04-16
20 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
determinants of city's meaning across time and place ‐ sheer size of urban populations in a given society , Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear (1999), cinematic disasters visited upon Los Angeles , American cities ‐ continuing to grow, different from mega‐cities of the developing world , cities through nineteenth century ‐ humanity's first cities, some millennia before Roman Empire , twentieth‐century cities ‐ city's seeming unnaturalness stemming from Progressive era, American , cities and suburbs , Nature's Metropolis (1991) ‐ early reference point, describing raw materials , Craig Colten's An Unnatural Metropolis (2006) ‐ narrating ways that New Orleans' leaders sought to “wrest” the city from “nature” , city blossoming ‐ yielding novel avenues for “writing nature into human history”
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