The Culture of Cities : txt
[by] Lewis Mumford.
- xii, 586 p. ill. ; plates ; 24 cm. book
Include index.
Bibliography: p. 497-552.
CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 3 -- CHAPTER I. PROTECTION AND THE MEDIEVAL TOWN 13 -- 1: STRIPPING Off the Medieval Myth 13 -- 2: The Need of Protection 14 -- 3: The “Increase of Population and Wealth” 17 -- 4: Lordly Scadders and Medieval New Edens 24 -- 5: Domination of the Church 27 -- 6: The service of the Guild 29 -- 7: Medieval Domesticity 35 -- 8: Hygiene and Sanitation 42 -- 9: Principles of Medieval Town Planning 51 -- 10: Control of Growth and Expansion 58 -- 11: The Stage and the Drama 60 -- 12: What Overthrew the Medieval City? 64 -- CHAPTER II. COURT, PARADE, AND CAPITAL 73 -- 1: The Afterglow of the Middle Ages 73 -- 2: Territory and City 78 -- 3: Instruments of Coercion 82 -- 4: War as City Builder 86 -- 5: The Ideology of Power 89 -- 6: Movement and the Avenue 94 -- 7: The Shopping Parade 98 -- 8: The New Divinity 105 -- 9: Position of the Palace 108 -- 10: Influence of the Palace on the City 111 -- 11: Bedroom and Salon 113 -- 12: The Muddle of Speculative Overcrowding 120 -- 13: The Baroque Plan 124 -- 14: Architectural Forms 128 -- 15: What Saved the Olympians 135 -- 16: Fulfillment and Renewal 139 -- CHAPTER III. THE INSENSATE INDUSTRIAL TOWN 143 -- 1: The Displacement of Population 143 -- 2: Mechanization and Abbau 149 -- 3: The Postulates of Utilitarianism 152 -- 4: The Technics of Agglomeration 157 -- 5: Factory and Slum 161 -- 6: House of Ill Fame 168 -- 7: Resistant to Barbarism 173 -- 8: The Minimum of Life 176 -- 9: Paleotechnic Drama 180 -- 10: The Non Plan of the Non City 183 -- 11: A Close up of Coketown 190 -- 12: The Old Curiosity Shop 198 -- 13: The Triumph of Iron 205 -- 14: Far from the Madding Crowd 210 -- 15: The Woodlanders 218 -- 16: Reaction 221 -- CHAPTER IV. RISE AND FALL OF MEGALOPOLIS 223 -- 1: The New Coalition 223 -- 2: The tentacular Bureaucracy 226 -- 3: Shapeless Giantism 233 -- 4: Means of Congestion 235 -- 5: The Cost of Costiveness 240 -- 6: The Blighted Area 245 -- 7: The Acceptance of Depletion 248 -- 8: Defacement of Nature 252 -- 9: The Paper Dream City 255 -- 10: The Acquisitiveness of a sick Metropolis 259 -- 11: Routine and Relaxation 265 -- 12: The Poison of Vicarious Vitality 267 -- 13: A Brief Outline of Hell 272 -- 14: Phenomena of the End 279 -- 15: Cycle of Growth and Decay 283 -- 16: Possibilities of Renewal 292 -- 17: Signs of Salvage 295 -- CHAPTER V. THE REGIONAL FRAMEWORK OF CIVILIZATION 300 -- 1: New Patterns of Life and Thought 300 -- 2: The Regional Outlook 304 -- 3: The Region as a Geographic Unit 306 -- 4: The City as a Geographic Fact 316 -- 5: The Earth as Home 322 -- 6: The Landscape: A Cultural Resource 331 -- 7: The Economic Region 336 -- 8: Power as Region Builder 342 -- CHAPTER VI. THE POLITICS OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 348 -- 1:Regionalism and Politics 348 -- 2: The Process of Regionalization 358 -- 3: The Postulates of Regionalism 366 -- 4: Regional Planning: A New Task 371 -- 5: Survey and Plan as Communal Education 381 -- 6: Conditions of Urban Re building 387 -- 7: The New Method of City Development Garden City 392 -- CHAPTER VII. SOCIAL BASIS OF THE NEW URBAN ORDER 402 -- 1: Architecture as Symbol 402 -- 2: Principles of Modern Form Economy 416 -- 3: The Role Hygiene 421 -- 4: The prolongation of Youth 428 -- 5: Bi polar Domesticity 430 -- 6: The Death of the Monument 433 -- 7: Flexibility and Renewal 440 -- 8: The Mission of the Museum 446 -- 9: The Undifferentiated Background 448 -- 10: Individuation and Socialization 454 -- 11: From a Money Economy to Life Economy 458 -- 12: Modern Housing by Communities 456 -- 13: The School as Community Nucleus 271 -- 14: The Social Concept of the City 479 -- 15: Contrapuntal Organization 485 -- 16: Principles of Urban Order 486 -- PREFATORY NOTE V -- GLOSSARY 495 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY 497 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 553 -- INDEX 555 -- ILLUSTRATIONS : I.THE MEDIEVAL CITY -- 1: Profile and Elevation 20 -- 2: Lübeck Medieval Order 21 -- 3: Collective Dramas 36 -- 4: Institutions and Structures 37 -- II.THE BAROQUE CITY -- 5: The Mechanical and the Sensuous 100 -- 6: The Courtly Life 101 -- 7: Getting and Spending 116 -- 8: Paris Cartesian Order 117 -- III. TRANSITIONS -- 9: Environment of the Olympians 136 -- 10: Dutch Cities: Old and New 137 -- IV. THE INDUSTRIAL TOWN -- 11: Coketown Mechanical Order 196 -- 12: The Paleotechnic Drama 197 -- 13: Romanticism and Humanitarianism 212 -- 14: The Promise of Iron and Glass 213 -- V. ELEMENTS OF PLAN -- 15: Types of Traditional Plan 236 -- 16 and 17: Amsterdam Organic Planning 236 -- VI. THE METROPOLIS -- 18: Heart of Empire 260 -- 19: Megalopolitan Routine 261 -- 20: Dream and Reality 276 -- 21: New York Congestion Unlimited 277 -- VII. THE REGIONAL COMPLEX -- 22: Outlines for Regional Planning 307 -- 23: Agents of Regional Development 324 -- 24: Tennessee Valley 325 -- VIII. BIOTECHNIC CIVILIZATION -- 25: New Source of Form 356 -- 26: Monuments versus Buildings 357 -- 27: The New Vernacular 372 -- 28: Urban Rehabilitation 373 -- IX. CITY AND REGION -- Functional Zoning 436 -- 30: New Urban Types 437 -- 31: Greenbelt Towns 452 -- 32: Frankfurt Römerstadt: Biotechnic Order 453 --