TY - BOOK AU - Whitfield,Peter TI - Cities of the World: a history in maps. SN - 9780520247253 AV - G1030 W5 2005 U1 - 911 22 PY - 2005/// CY - London : PB - British Library KW - Historical geography KW - Maps KW - Local KW - Cities and towns in art KW - Atlases KW - Cities and towns KW - History N1 - 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 -- N2 - "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." -- ER -