Research Catalog

Title

Cities of the world : a history in maps / Peter Whitfield.

Author

Whitfield, Peter, 1947-

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.

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Details

Description

1 atlas (208 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps; 32 cm

Summary

"Cities of the World traces the historic form and special character of the world's greatest cities through a collection of maps and panoramic views. Peter Whitfield focuses on more than sixty cities - from Athens to Brasilia, Washington to Moscow, San Francisco to Saigon, and Venice to Lhasa. He presents an extremely wide range of maps, historic prints, and photographs from many periods that show how the architectural form and the social life of our cities have been shaped - not only by their geographical setting, but also by religion, royal power, commerce, social ideals, and occasionally artistic vision. These images illustrate the historic heart of the cities: the ancient harbors, the hilltop fortresses, the encircling walls, and the houses, churches, and palaces that have been added over the centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Historical geography > Maps
• Cities and towns > History > Maps
• Atlases
• Atlases as Topic
• atlases
• Cities and towns
• Historical geography

Genre/Form

• atlases.
• Atlases.
• History.
• Maps.
• Atlas.

Note

• Originally published: London : British Library, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 206) and index.

Contents

Introduction : the city in history -- Teotihuacan, a vanished city -- Alexandria -- Amsterdam -- Athens -- Bath -- Beijing -- Berlin -- Bern and Zurich -- Boston -- Bristol -- Calais -- Cambridge -- Cape Town -- Chicago -- Cologne -- Constantinople -- Cuzco -- Delhi -- Durham -- Edinburgh -- Florence -- Goa -- Helsingor -- Isfahan -- Jerusalem -- Karlsruhe -- Lhasa -- Lisbon -- Liverpool -- London -- Luxembourg -- Manchester -- Mantua -- Marseille -- Mexico City -- Moscow and St. Petersburg (Leningrad) -- Nagasaki -- Naples -- New York -- Oxford -- Palmanova -- Paris -- Philadelphia -- Quebec and New Orleans, the cities of New France -- Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia -- Rome -- Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) -- St. Andrews -- Salt Lake City -- Salzburg -- San Francisco -- Santo Domingo -- Savannah -- Seville -- Stockholm -- Sydney -- Tangier -- Venice -- Vienna -- Washington -- Würzburg -- Azilia and City of the Sun, unbuilt dream cities.

ISBN

• 0520247256
• 9780520247253

LCCN

2005045003

OCLC

• ocm61237369
• 61237369
• SCSB-9452781

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library