Title 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

Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource 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 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Cities and towns -- History -- To 1500 City planning -- History -- To 1500 Public spaces -- History -- To 1500 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects. Cities and towns City planning Public spaces Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Fisher, Kevin D., 1968- ISBN 9781139922777 1139922777 9781107110274 1107110270 9781139907187 1139907182

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