[Modern Library Chronicles 21] • The City by Kotkin, Joel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Praise Modern Library Chronicles CHRONOLOGY PREFACE INTRODUCTION: - PLACES SACRED, SAFE, AND BUSY PART ONE - ORIGINS: THE RISE OF CITIES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT CHAPTER ONE - SACRED ORIGINS

MESOPOTAMIA EGYPT INDIA AND CHINA THE AMERICAS

CHAPTER TWO - PROJECTIONS OF POWER— THE RISE OF THE IMPERIAL CITY

SARGON: THE CREATOR OF THE IMPERIAL CITY BABYLON: THE FIRST URBAN COLOSSUS SECURITY AND URBAN COLLAPSE CHINA: THE ENDURING URBAN ORDER

CHAPTER THREE - THE FIRST COMMERCIAL CAPITALS

THE RISE OF PHOENICIA “WHOSE MERCHANTS ARE PRINCES” THE ROOTS OF PHOENICIAN DECLINE

PART TWO - CLASSICAL CITIES IN EUROPE CHAPTER FOUR - THE GREEK ACHIEVEMENT

CRETE MYCENAE: GREEK PRECURSOR THE CLASSICAL POLIS THE GREEK DIASPORA THE TWILIGHT OF THE CITY-STATES ALEXANDER AND THE HELLENISTIC CITY ALEXANDRIA: THE FIRST GREAT COSMOPOLIS UNRAVELING OF ALEXANDER’S VISION

CHAPTER FIVE - ROME—THE FIRST MEGACITY

“THE VICTORIOUS ROMANS” THE MAKING OF THE IMPERIAL CITY ROME: THE ARCHETYPAL MEGACITY “A CONFEDERATION OF URBAN CELLS”

CHAPTER SIX - THE ECLIPSE OF THE CLASSICAL CITY

THE CITY OF MAN VERSUS THE CITY OF GOD “ALL IS NEGLECT” CONSTANTINOPLE: URBAN SURVIVOR

PART THREE - THE ORIENTAL EPOCH CHAPTER SEVEN - THE ISLAMIC ARCHIPELAGO

MUHAMMAD’S URBAN VISION THE NATURE OF THE ISLAMIC CITY DAMASCUS: PARADISE ON EARTH BAGHDAD: “CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD” CAIRO’S GOLDEN AGE FROM NORTH AFRICA TO THE BORDERS OF CHINA INDIA’S ISLAMIC REBIRTH

CHAPTER EIGHT - CITIES OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM

URBAN TRADITION IN AN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY “THE ASTRAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSAL ORDER” “GREAT CLOUDS IN THE SKY”

CHAPTER NINE - OPPORTUNITY LOST

THE PROBLEM OF PROSPERITY THE LIMITS OF AUTOCRACY THE SUPPRESSION OF ENTREPRENEURS EUROPE’S REEMERGENCE

PART FOUR - WESTERN CITIES REASSERT THEIR PRIMACY CHAPTER TEN - EUROPE’S URBAN RENAISSANCE

THE SACRED ROOTS OF THE RENAISSANCE THE RETURN OF THE CITY-STATES VENICE: “JEWEL BOX OF THE WORLD” FLORENCE AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN URBAN POLITICS IMPERIAL CITIES OVERCOME THE CITY-STATES THE IBERIAN ASCENDANCY PARIS: THE ULTIMATE EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITY

CHAPTER ELEVEN - CITIES OF MAMMON

EUROPE’S EXPANDING URBAN ORDER THE FAILURE OF THE IBERIAN EMPIRES THE EMERGENCE OF THE NORTH AMSTERDAM: THE FIRST GREAT MODERN COMMERCIAL CITY LONDON THE WORLD CAPITALIST CAPITAL

PART FIVE - THE INDUSTRIAL CITY CHAPTER TWELVE - THE ANGLO -AMERICAN URBAN REVOLUTION

LANCASHIRE: ORIGINATOR OF THE REVOLUTION “WITH COGS TYRANNIC” “HERO OF THE AGE” URBANIZING THE “GARDEN OF THE WORLD” NEW YORK’S NINETEENTH-CENTURY INDUSTRIAL AGE EMERGENCE CITIES OF THE HEARTLAND THE CHALLENGE OF “PROGRESS” NEW YORK: THE ULTIMATE VERTICAL CITY “LIKE A WITCH AT THE GATE OF THE COUNTRY” AMERICA GOES HIGH-RISE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - INDUSTRIALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS

THE GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS OF INDUSTRIALISM JAPAN’S SUDDEN INDUSTRIALIZATION “THE IRON MONSTER” RECONSTRUCTING JAPANESE CITIES THE NAZI EXPERIMENT RUSSIA: THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION THE SOVIET SYSTEM “SHARPENING OUR AXES” COMMUNISM’S URBAN LEGACY

PART SIX - THE MODERN METROPOLIS CHAPTER FOURTEEN - THE SEARCH FOR A “BETTER CITY”

THE PROMISE OF LOS ANGELES A SHORT HISTORY OF SUBURBIA “ONIONS FIFTY TO A ROPE” A NEW URBAN VISION “A SIX ROOM HOUSE WITH A BIG YARD”

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - SUBURBIA TRIUMPHANT

THE “SLEEP OF DEATH” SKYSCRAPERS AFLAME “GRAND ACHIEVEMENTS” AND THEIR LIMITATIONS THE FINAL AGONIES OF THE INDUSTRIAL CITY THE “UNIVERSAL ASPIRATION” ARGENTINA AND AUSTRALIA BRITAIN AND THE MODERN “GARDEN CITY” SUBURBANIZATION IN WESTERN EUROPE THE GHETTOIZATION OF EUROPEAN CITIES EVEN IN PARIS JAPANESE “GARDEN CITIES”

CHAPTER SIXTEEN - THE POSTCOLONIAL DILEMMA

THE COLONIAL LEGACY “THE URBANIZATION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE” “EUROPEAN MICROCOSMS” “THE HALCYON DAYS” A FATEFUL BREAK IN URBAN HISTORY THE RISE OF SQUATTER CITIES AFRICA’S URBAN TRAGEDY “SOCIAL TIME BOMBS”

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - “QUEENS OF THE FURTHER EAST”

INDIA’S URBAN REVOLUTION EAST ASIA BREAKS THE MOLD SEOUL’S EMERGENCE BRITAIN’S SUCCESSFUL OFFSPRING SINGAPORE: ASIA’S MODEL CITY THE REVITALIZATION OF CONFUCIAN DISCOURSE CHINESE CITIES UNDER MAOISM THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS AND THE REVIVAL OF CHINESE CITIES SHANGHAI’S RESURGENCE SUBURBIA COMES TO EAST ASIA

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