Cities Then and Now

by J.Antoniou (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $6.48

  This text contains detailed artwork reconstructions of significant centres of urban life from ancient babylon (1500 BC) to the 19th century, including ancient Athens and Rome, Renaissance Florence, neoclassical St Petersburg, 19th-century New York, and Dickensian London in 1841. Supporting pages of maps, photographs and diagrams deal with associated themes - city living, city building, city work, politics and planning - and show how they have responded to the increasing pace of technological change. A final section, Past Visions of the Future , explores the making of the Ideal City , from Plato and Sir Thomas Moore to late 20th-century high tech fantasies.