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11. Pre-Colombian Cities

    By Jorge Enrique Hardoy

    What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many more in his comprehensive summary of the ancient...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
12. The Urban Community

    A World Perspective

    By Nels Andersen

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    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
13. City Slums

    A Political Thesis

    By J.A. Ingham

    This book was first published in 1889....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
14. The New Urban Economics

    And Alternatives

    By H.W. Richardson

    This book was first published in 1977. ...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
15. Rails Through the Clay

    A History of London's Tube Railways

    By Alan A. Jackson, Desmond F. Croome

    This book was first published in 1962. ...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
16. English Urban Life

    1776-1851

    By James Walvin

    The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. English town dwellers of the period experienced some fundamental changes in their way of life: rapid population growth; and an unprecedented rate of social change resulting from this. These...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
17. Great Cities of the World

    Their government, Politics and Planning

    Edited by W.A. Robson

    The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
18. Centrality and Cities

    By James Bird

    Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future. He sees centrality as a mental projection on to space, and discusses the concept in relation to three types of its manifestation in...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
19. City, Region and Regionalism

    A geographical contribution to human ecology

    By Robert E. Dickinson

    This book was first published in 1947....

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
20. Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700

    Edited by Peter Clark, Paul Slack

    This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge