Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014

1 online resource (444 p.)

Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Making Ancient Cities: New Perspectives on the Production of Urban Places; Archaeological Perspectives on Ancient Cities; This Volume in Context; Making Ancient Cities in Global Perspective; Mesopotamia; The Eastern Mediterranean; Africa; Mesoamerica; North America; Rome and China; Future Directions in the Study of Ancient Cities; References Cited; 2 The Social Production of Space in Third-Millennium Cities of Upper Mesopotamia. - Acknowledgments. - Analysis of the Excavation DataAnalysis of the Magnetometry Data; Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References Cited; 4 Swahili Urban Spaces of the Eastern African Coast; Swahili Urbanism; "Cities of the Mind"; Comparing Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Swahili Town Plans; Levels of Meaning; Practice and the Stonehouse; Cities as Processes, not Products; Acknowledgments; References Cited; 5 The Production of Space and Identity at Classic-Period Chunchucmil, Yucatán, Mexico; Chunchucmil as an Ancient Maya Urban Center; The Built Environment of the City of Chunchucmil. - Between City and Household: Late Cypriot NeighborhoodsUrban Households: Place-Making from the Bottom-up; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Notes; References Cited; 7 Urbanization and the Emergence of the Greek Polis: The Case of Azoria, Crete; The Domestic Landscape; The Civic Landscape; The Urban Landscape; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Notes; References Cited; 8 The Rise of a Minoan City and the (Re)Structuring of Its Hinterlands: A View from Galatas; The City; Coordination of Buildings and Spaces; Formality and Monumentality; Standardization; The Planned City of Galatas; The Region; Discussion. - Social Production of Place and Identity at ChunchucmilCultivating a Sense of Place; Experiencing the Materiality of the Built Environment; Participating in Long-Distance Trade and Commerce; Reinforcing Social Bonds; Urban Imaginary; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References Cited; 6 Making the First Cities on Cyprus: Urbanism and Social Change in the Late Bronze Age; Ways of Looking at Late Cypriot Cities; The Rise of Urbanism on Cyprus; The Proto-Urban Period; Place-Making in Late Cypriot Urban Landscapes; The Planned City: Elite Place-Making Writ Large. - Urbanization and Urban SpaceCity Size and the Cities Discussed Here; Upper Mesopotamian Urban Planning; City Shapes; City Accessibility; Nucleation; Defense; Symbolism; Land Tenure; Multicentricity; Conservative Development; Defensible Space; Parceled Houses; Armature; The Importance of Life Histories; Ideal Cities; Discussion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References Cited; 3 North Mesopotamian Urban Neighborhoods at Titriş Höyük in the Third Millennium BC; Previous Studies on Ancient Urban Residential Neighborhoods; The Environment of City-States; North Mesopotamian City Layout; Titriş Höyük. - Investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism.

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