Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader Book

	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