03050nam a2200349Ia 4500 pucpr 20240404170840.0 012413s2005 cau e 1 eng 2005045003 2005051436 9780520247253 0520247256 (cloth : alk. paper) pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET G1030 W5 2005 911 22 Whitfield, Peter 1947- 290825 Cities of the World : a history in maps. / Peter Whitfield. txt London : British Library , 2005. 1 atlas (208 p.) ill. (some col.) ; col. maps ; 32 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Includes index. Include Bibliography Contents: Introduction : the city in history -- Teotihuacan, a vanished city -- Alexandria -- Amsterdam -- Athens -- Bath -- Beijing -- Berlin -- Bern and Zurich -- Boston -- Bristol -- Calais -- Cambridge -- Cape Town -- Chicago -- Cologne -- Constantinople -- Cuzco -- Delhi -- Durham -- Edinburgh -- Florence -- Goa -- Helsingor -- Isfahan -- Jerusalem -- Karlsruhe -- Lhasa -- Lisbon -- Liverpool -- London -- Luxembourg -- Manchester -- Mantua -- Marseille -- Mexico City -- Moscow and St. Petersburg (Leningrad) -- Nagasaki -- Naples -- New York -- Oxford -- Palmanova -- Paris -- Philadelphia -- Quebec and New Orleans, the cities of New France -- Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia -- Rome -- Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) -- St. Andrews -- Salt Lake City -- Salzburg -- San Francisco -- Santo Domingo -- Savannah -- Seville -- Stockholm -- Sydney -- Tangier -- Venice -- Vienna -- Washington -- Würzburg -- Azilia and City of the Sun, unbuilt dream cities -- "Cities of the World traces the historic form and special character of the world's greatest cities through a collection of maps and panoramic views. Peter Whitfield focuses on more than sixty cities - from Athens to Brasilia, Washington to Moscow, San Francisco to Saigon, and Venice to Lhasa. He presents an extremely wide range of maps, historic prints, and photographs from many periods that show how the architectural form and the social life of our cities have been shaped - not only by their geographical setting, but also by religion, royal power, commerce, social ideals, and occasionally artistic vision. These images illustrate the historic heart of the cities: the ancient harbors, the hilltop fortresses, the encircling walls, and the houses, churches, and palaces that have been added over the centuries." -- Historical geography Maps. 111399 Local Cities and towns in art 73676 Atlases 55773 Local Cities and towns History. Maps. 73674 Local lcc 6 G1030 Oversize W5 2005 229652 229652 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 64 2013-08-01 amazon 47.06 501290 0 Oversize G1030 W5 2005 91000000027409 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 57.06 2013-08-01 6