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The Rise of Cities TimeFrame: The Urban Pioneers, the Classical Achievement, the Orient Ascendant, Rebirth in the West, the Grand Design, the Age of Metropolis.

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DESCRIPTION: Hardback: 176 pages. Publisher: Time-Life Books Inc; (1991). The Time Frame series was released in the late 80\'s-early 90\'s. Each volume undertakes to describe the major events that happened in one specific time period in the development of mankind’s civilization(s). The volumes are richly illustrated, and designed as an introduction to the time frame covered. Especially compelling are the artists interpretations or recreations of what various ancient civilizations would have looked like – their architecture, homes, monuments, cities, daily life, jewelry, food, family life, dwellings, occupations, etc. As just one instance, the ruins of Babylon and Ur, Athens and Rome hint at the incredible richness of those fabled cities. The artist’s recreations in this series are simply mind-numbing. This is as close as you can be to actually having been there.

The entire series is truly a magnificent introduction to the history of the era. If you could have just one book (or series of books) to introduce the history of humankind, this would have to be it. The overviews are concise and well-written. Together with the illustration and pictures they impart a wonderful mental and emotional “picture” of what life must have been like in various civilizations and at various times. Done in a style so wonderfully characteristic of Time-Life’s publications, these are over-sized “coffee table” type books full of impressive imagery. The pictures of the world’s greatest art and architecture alone are worth the cost of these books. But don’t get the impression that these volumes are “fluff”. While a particular volume might not quite take the place as a university degree, the material is well-written, informative, and immensely intellectually gratifying, overview though it might be. This particular volume is titled “The Rise of the material is divided into a number of subjects which will give you an idea of the rich content; and includes:

“The Urban Pioneers” - Madaktu, Iran 1700 B.C. – Assyria – Ur (Sumeria) – Mohenjo-Daro (Indus Valley, India) – Ancient Waterway Trading Centers – Links of Commerce (Thebes – Anatolian Silver – Nimrud – Levantine Merchants – Ur’s Jewelry and Afghan Lapis Lazuli) – Urban Administration (Egypt’s Viziers and Mesopotamia’s Lugals) – Religious Centers; the Hub of the Community (Neribtum Mesopotamia’s Ishtar-Kititum Temples 2000 B.C.) – In Service to the Gods (Priests and Worshippers) – Mud Brick Archectiture – Assyrian Conquests (700 B.C.) – Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa; Great Urban Centers of the Indus (3 Storied Houses in 3000 B.C.) – China’s Shang – Mayan Copan (Urban Public Buildings and Suburban Sprawl).

“The Classical Achievement” – Rome, Second Century A.D. – Priene: Athenian Colonial Model 500 B.C. – Ancient Greece’s Polis – Festivals of the Gods (Religious Mega-Architecture and Religious Festivals) – Athens 400 B.C. (pop. 150,000) – Amphitheatres: Plays for the People (Epidaurus; 17,000 seats) – Hellenism and Alexander the Great – The Tiber River’s Seven Hills – Rome: The Splendor and the Squalor 100 B.C. (pop. 1,000,000) – Ostia: Rome’s Port City – The Colosseum: An Arena of blood – Ostia’s Apartment Blocks – Rome’s Marketplace – Rome’s Aquaducts: Water for the Capital – Ancient Surveying: Cities Made to Measure (Roman Colonial Cities – Timgad, Algeria, 200 A.D.) – Roman Colonial Public Facilities (Carthage, Timgad, Antioch, Ephesus, Chester, Narbonne) – Lie in the Shadows: The Urban Criminal Underbelly – Predator and Prey – Illicit Pleasures of the Brothel – Doorways to Oblivion: The Opium Den and the Bar.

“The Orient Ascendant” – Cairo’s Marketplace – Egypt’s Port of Alexandria – Byzantine Constantinople – Aleppo, Syria: A Citadel of the Faith – Mosques: The House of Islam – The Medieval Arab Marketplace – The Caravansary: Medieval Merchant Center and Residence Complex – The Persian Harem – The Persian Marketplace – Islamic Libraries – The Spanish Sultans of Grenada – China’s Tang Cities – Medieval Beijing – Tang Urab Transport: Canals and Roads – Kyoto: Japan’s Medieval Capital.

“Rebirth in the West” – Florentine: Europe’s Medieval Banking and Trading Capital – Nuremberg: A Walled Society – Medieval Urban Artisans – The Medieval Church: A Holy Provider – Europe’s Cities” Medieval to Renaissance Transition and Revolution – Paris and the Cathedral of Notre Dame – Flemish Cities of the Middle Ages – Early Renaissance Trade Guilds – International Trade: The Merchants’ Progress – Familia Medici e Pittis: Italy’s Powerful 15th Century Banking Communities – Constantinople: Bastion in the East – Paving Europe’s Medieval Cities – Venice: Europe’s Maritime Capital – Cities of the Architectural Imagination.

“The Grand Design” – Boulevard Saint Antoine, Paris – The Great London Fire of 1666 – Karlsruhe, Capital of Baden – Amsterdam: Europe’s Financial Capital – Prague’s Hradcany Castle – The Place Louis XV and Squares of Distinction – Antwerp: Flemish Capital – Society at Leisure – Britain’s Bath Spa – Dresden’s Coffeehouses – Rome’s Teatro Argentina Opera House – London’s Parks – The Teeming Cities of the 19th Century – Grand Institutions of State Funding – Mexico City’s Plaza de la Constitucion: Spanish Imperial Market Square – Central Park: New York’s Urban Oases – Private Parks and Pleasure Gardens – London’s Saint James Park – Paris’s Cremorne Gardens – Tokyo’s Kan’eiji Temple Ueno Park – Playgrounds for the Public – Paris’s Boi de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes Forests – Berlin’s Tiergarten – Liverpool’s Birkenhead Park.

“The Age of the Metropolis” – Glasgow: Transition from Great Britain’s Beautiful City to Blighted Industrial Center – Chicago: America’s Elevated Midwest Capital – Britain’s Birmingham: A Vision of Enterprise – London: The Industrial Vortex – Vienna’s Ringstrasse – Rail: The Engine of Industrial Expansion – Budapest’s Paris Department Store: Conspicuous Consumption for the Middle Classes – Glasgow’s Industrial Slums: Scourges of Disease and Crime – New York’s Ellis Island: Fantasy and Reality – Office Mechanization 1870: Typewriters, Telephones, and Adding Machines – Moving the Multitudes (Buses, Subways and Rail) – The Birth of the Suburbs – Urban Underground Arteries – Concrete Rivers: Freeways – Japan’s Megacity Tokyo (Population Density 23,000 per square mile).

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