Making Ancient Cities
Making Ancient Cities
Space and Place in Early Urban Societies
Andrew T. Creekmore, III, University of Northern Colorado
Kevin D. Fisher, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Kevin D. Fisher, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
October 2019
Paperback
9781107660700
This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism. Culturally and chronologically diverse case studies provide a basis to examine recent theoretical and methodological shifts in the archaeology of ancient cities. The book's primary goal is to examine how ancient cities were made by the people who lived in them. The authors argue that there is a mutually constituting relationship between urban form and the actions and interactions of a plurality of individuals, groups, and institutions, each with their own motivations and identities. Space is therefore socially produced as these agents operate in multiple spheres.
- Contains analysis of a diverse array of cities in several regions of the world
- Includes case studies of interesting cities that are not well known
- Examines the development of urban space at many levels ranging from the actions of everyday residents to the dictates of powerful rulers
Product details
October 2019Paperback
9781107660700
441 pages
255 × 177 × 24 mm
0.8kg
69 b/w illus. 12 maps
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Table of Contents
- 1. Making ancient cities: new perspectives on the production of urban places Kevin D. Fisher and Andrew T. Creekmore, III
- 2. The social production of space in third millennium cities of Upper Mesopotamia Andrew T. Creekmore, III
- 3. North Mesopotamian urban neighborhoods at Titriş Höyük in the third millennium BC Yoko Nishimura
- 4. Swahili urban spaces of the East African coast Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Jeffrey Fleisher
- 5. The production of space and identity at classic period Chunchucmil, Yucatán, Mexico Aline Magnoni, Traci Ardren, Scott Hutson and Bruce Dahlin
- 6. Making the first cities on Cyprus: urbanism and social change in the Late Bronze Age Kevin D. Fisher
- 7. Urbanization and the emergence of the Greek polis: the case of Azoria, Crete Rodney D. Fitzsimons
- 8. The rise of a Minoan city and the (re)structuring of its hinterlands: a view from Galatas D. Matthew Buell
- 9. Cahokia: the processes and principles of the creation of an early Mississippian city John E. Kelly and James A. Brown
- 10. Comparing east and west: aspects of urban manufacture and retail in the capitals of the Roman and Han empires Anna Razeto
- 11. Ancient open space, gardens, and parks: a comparative discussion of Mesoamerican urbanism Barbara L. Stark
- 12. Different cities Norman Yoffee.
