| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Making Ancient Cities: New Perspectives on the Production of Urban Places / Andrew T. Creekmore III -- Archaeological Perspectives on Ancient Cities -- This Volume in Context -- Making Ancient Cities in Global Perspective -- Future Directions in the Study of Ancient Cities -- 2. The Social Production of Space in Third-Millennium Cities of Upper Mesopotamia / Andrew T. Creekmore III -- Urbanization and Urban Space -- Upper Mesopotamian Urban Planning -- City Shapes -- City Accessibility -- Nucleation -- Multicentricity -- Conservative Development -- Defensible Space -- Parceled Houses -- Armature -- The Importance of Life Histories -- Ideal Cities -- Discussion -- 3. North Mesopotamian Urban Neighborhoods at Titris Hoyuk in the Third Millennium BC / Yoko Nishimura |
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Ways of Looking at Late Cypriot Cities -- The Rise of Urbanism on Cyprus -- Place-Making in Late Cypriot Urban Landscapes -- Conclusions -- 7. Urbanization and the Emergence of the Greek Polis: The Case of Azoria, Crete / Rodney D. Fitzsimons -- The Domestic Landscape -- The Civic Landscape -- The Urban Landscape -- Conclusions -- 8. The Rise of a Minoan City and the (Re)Structuring of Its Hinterlands: A View from Galatas / D. Matthew Buell -- The City -- The Region -- Discussion -- 9. Cahokia: The Processes and Principles of the Creation of an Early Mississippian City / James A. Brown -- Cahokia as a City: Past Perspectives -- Cahokia: The Cityscape -- Settlement History, Evolution, and Cosmology -- Corporate Groups and City Space -- Conclusions: Cahokia as a City Revisited -- 10. Comparing East and West: Aspects of Urban Manufacture and Retail in the Capitals of the Roman and Han Empires / Anna Razeto |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2013040412 |
| ISBN | 9781107046528 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1107046521 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781107660700 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 110766070X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
