By Andrew Lees
The town: an international background tells the tale of the increase and improvement of city facilities from precedent days to the twenty-first century. It starts with the institution of the 1st towns within the close to East within the fourth millennium BCE, and is going directly to research city development within the Indus River Valley in India, in addition to Egypt and parts that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome stand out both
As the economic Revolution swept via within the 19th century, towns grew swiftly. Their growth ended in a slew of social difficulties and political disruptions, however it was once observed by way of extraordinary measures designed to enhance city lifestyles. in the meantime, colonial towns bore the imprint of ecu imperialism. ultimately, the booklet turns to the years considering that 1914, guided via a number of topics: the effect of struggle and revolution; city reconstruction after 1945; migration out of many towns within the usa into transforming into suburbs; and the explosive progress of "megacities" within the constructing international. --Amazon Read more...
summary: town: a global background tells the tale of the increase and improvement of city facilities from precedent days to the twenty-first century. It starts off with the institution of the 1st towns within the close to East within the fourth millennium BCE, and is going directly to research city progress within the Indus River Valley in India, in addition to Egypt and parts that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome stand out either politically and culturally. With the autumn of the Roman Empire within the West, ecu towns entered right into a lengthy interval of waning and deterioration. yet somewhere else, nice cities-among them, Constantinople, Baghdad, Chang'an, and Tenochtitlán-thrived. within the past due center a long time and the Early sleek interval, city development resumed in Europe, giving upward thrust to towns like Florence, Paris, and London. This city development additionally speeded up in elements of the realm that got here below ecu keep an eye on, resembling Philadelphia within the nascent United States
As the economic Revolution swept via within the 19th century, towns grew quickly. Their growth ended in a slew of social difficulties and political disruptions, however it was once followed via outstanding measures designed to enhance city lifestyles. in the meantime, colonial towns bore the imprint of ecu imperialism. ultimately, the publication turns to the years given that 1914, guided through a couple of topics: the influence of warfare and revolution; city reconstruction after 1945; migration out of many towns within the usa into turning out to be suburbs; and the explosive progress of "megacities" within the constructing international. --Amazon
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Growth picked up after the invasions ceased during the tenth century. During the high Middle Ages, between 1000 and 1300, Europe experienced a great boom of city founding and urban development. The number of cities with populations of 10,000 or more grew from 111 to 242, and the numbers of people living in them nearly doubled. In absolute terms, the greatest growth occurred in cities that had long been established. Paris’s population, for example, went from 20,000 to 160,000 and Venice’s from 45,000 to 110,000.
Humanity’s urban project continued to unfold. The most spectacular developments occurred in the vast area between the Byzantine and the Chinese empires, but cities popped up or expanded in other areas too, such as Japan, Cambodia, and West Africa. In the Americas, by the eighth century, Teotihuacan had grown to at least 125,000 to 200,000 inhabitants from about 20,000 around 350 BCE. Later on, as Tenochtitlán was becoming even larger, small Pueblo settlements such as Anasazi and Hohokam (in today’s Mexico, New Mexico, and Arizona) emerged as proto-urban if not fully urban settlements.
After a western occupation that lasted until 1261, a Greek emperor, Michael VIII Palaeologus, ended the reign of the Latin emperors who had been imposed by the Crusaders. But the city of which he took possession had suffered and continued to suffer a great loss of population, which fell, by the mid–fifteenth century, to 40,000–50,000 inhabitants. Partly as a result of this loss, it was unable to withstand subsequent assaults by Ottoman Turks. Continuing a push to the west that had begun several centuries earlier, these Muslims took control for good in 1453, thus bringing the Byzantine Empire to a definitive end.