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"The Nature of Cities embodies three parallel studies. Each deals with one aspect of the city; together they form a unity. The first study deals with the city's origin, growth, and decline. It is a history of city types rather than of particular cities. The second study, on pattern and form, has to do with the two orders of planning: the geometric and the organic, which govern city types, city architecture, and city landscape. The third region are...
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Compilation of conference papers on the historical development and sociological aspects of urbanization in the 19th century - examines the dimensions of mobility and stability of urban area social structures, changing rate of residential and labour mobility, social status, population turnover, living conditions in the social structure, political leadership, etc. Conference held in new haven 1968 November.
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"Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences - traffic jams, noisy neighbours, pollution, food scares - but urban nuisances of the past existed on a different scale entirely, Hubbub shows in vivid detail. Focusing on offences to the eyes, ears, noses, taste buds, and skin of inhabitants of England's pre-Industrial Revolution cities, Hubbub transports us to a world in which residents were scarred by small pox, refuse rotted in...
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