The History of the City
Book description
Leonardo Benevolo, author of The Architecture of the Renaissance and History of Modern Architecture (MIT Press, 1971), here provides a basic history of the man-made environment in Europe and the Near East, where the idea first emerged of the city as an integral and self-contained settlement, containing within itself other…
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How did cities come to exist? What comprises of a city definitionally?
This book starts at the beginning of man’s entry into this world to the modern city on how the city has evolved over time. The book provides an excellent framework for what a city is and why the concept of what a city is definitionally, is so important to understand from a historical and evolutionary context.
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