Landscapes of preindustrial urbanism / Georges Farhat, editor.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Farhat, Georges, editor.

Dumbarton Oaks, host institution.

Conference Name:

"Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities" (Symposium) (2017 : Washington, D.C.)

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture http://viaf.org/viaf/146149194

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--History--Congresses.

Urbanization.

Land use--History--Congresses.

Land use.

Land use, Urban--History--Congresses.

Land use, Urban.

Human ecology--History--Congresses.

Human ecology.

Urban archaeology--Congresses.

Urban archaeology.

Landscape archaeology--Congresses.

Landscape archaeology.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 314 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2020]

Summary:

"The use of the word "landscape" to describe the formation and infrastructure of cities seems to express contemporary preoccupations with the postindustrial urban condition. The Industrial Revolution is often seen as a turning point in the emergence of the urban landscape of the modern metropolis, and the large city as commonly experienced today in the world is certainly dependent on a range of recent (or quite recent) breakthroughs in construction technology, climate control, communication, and transportation. In this view, urban landscapes are a historically late development and are, therefore, seen to embody an essentially modern and Western concept. But features associated with contemporary urban landscapes-most notably the forms of human adaptation to and reshaping of the sites where cities develop and expand-can also be found in preindustrial contexts in different time periods and geographical regions. Preindustrial urban settlements generally occupied land that had been used for other, mostly productive, purposes, and their development involved complex and dynamic relationships with the management of natural resources. Such cities are traditionally studied as the centers of commerce, trade, and artisan production as well as the seats of secular and religious authorities; the essays in this volume to examine how the original clusters of agrarian communities evolved into urban formations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Bridging remote sensing and worldviews: urban landscapes from a preindustrial perspective / Georges Farhat

PART I. EARTHWORKS: Space and structure in early Mesopotamian cities / Jason A. Ur

Landscape change and ceremonial praxis in medieval Rome

from the Via Triumphalis to the Via Papalis / Hendrik W. Dey

What constituted Cahokian urbanism? / Timothy R. Pauketat

PART II. WATERSCAPES: Hydraulic landscapes of Roman and Byzantine cities / Jordan Pickett

Monsoon landscapes and flexible provisioning in the preindustrial cities of the Indian subcontinent / Monica l. Smith

The Phnom Kulen capital

a singular and early case of landscape construction in ancient Cambodia / Jean-Baptiste Chevance

The weave of natural and cultural ecology

Ekamrakshetra, the historic temple town of Bhubaneswar, India / Priyaleen Singh

PART III. FORESTRY: Xingu garden cities

Amazonian urban landscapes, or what? / Michael Heckenberger

"when the king breaks a town he builds another"

politics, slavery, and constructed urban landscapes in tropical West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe.

Notes:

"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XLI"--Page preceding title page.

"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium "Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities," held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on May 5-6, 2017."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780884024712

0884024717

OCLC:

1135095189

Publisher Number:

40030076292