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List of figures and tables | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | Ancient Cities | 3 |
1 | Urban Origins: a review of theories | 7 |
2 | Bricks and Brickmaking in Mud and Clay | 15 |
3 | History | 18 |
4 | Deir el-Medina | 23 |
5 | Heavy Transport in Classical Antiquity | 29 |
6 | Ancient Greek Water Supply | 37 |
7 | Lifting in Early Greek Architecture | 42 |
8 | The Organization and Supply of Roman Building | 48 |
9 | The Construction of Fortified Towns | 59 |
10 | On the Water Supply of the City of Rome | 63 |
11 | A Model of Agricultural Change | 66 |
12 | The Transformation of the Roman Suburbium | 76 |
Pt. 2 | Medieval and Early Modern Cities | 87 |
13 | Water Supply in Early Medieval Italy | 91 |
14 | From Polis to Madina: urban change in late antique and early Islamic Syria | 94 |
15 | Medieval Technology and Social Change | 99 |
16 | Fuelling the City: production and distribution of firewood and fuel in London's region, 1290-1400 | 104 |
17 | Road Improvement in Thirteenth-century Pisa | 120 |
18 | Town and Hinterland in Medieval Scotland | 125 |
19 | Building Renaissance Florence: materials, techniques, organization | 129 |
20 | Repositioning the Vatican Obelisk | 136 |
21 | Urbanization in Early Modern Europe: change or continuity? | 142 |
22 | Technology and the Built Environment of the Early Modern City | 145 |
23 | A Golden Age: Innovations in Dutch Cities, 1648-1720 | 150 |
24 | Fire-fighting Technology in Early Modern England | 155 |
25 | Technological Innovation in Seventeenth-century Paris | 157 |
26 | Rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666 | 163 |
27 | Technological Change in a Traditional Society: the case of the desague in colonial Mexico | 166 |
Pt. 3 | Pre-industrial Cities in China and Africa | 173 |
28 | Building in The Book of Odes | 176 |
29 | Meanings of Walls and Gates | 178 |
30 | Water-pipes, Fountains and Clocks | 187 |
31 | Tiles, Bricks and Coal | 191 |
32 | Guilds and Property Development in Hankou | 199 |
33 | Fire Brigades and Ferries in Hankou | 205 |
34 | A Description of Hankou in 1850 | 214 |
35 | Hausa Building Techniques | 218 |
36 | Building-types of the Hausa People: characteristics and formative influences | 235 |
Pt. 4 | The Sjoberg Model | 245 |
37 | The Pre-industrial City | 246 |
38 | Some Reflections on the Pre-industrial City | 251 |
Acknowledgements | 258 | |
Index | 261 |
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