DUMBARTON OAKS COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
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Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture 41

Landscapes of Preindustrial Urbanism

Edited by Georges Farhat

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HARDCOVER

$65.00 • £56.95 • €59.95

ISBN 9780884024712

Publication Date: 09/15/2020

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330 pages

8-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches

5 photos, 119 color photos, 16 illus., 7 color illus., 54 maps

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  • Foreword
    • 1. Bridging Remote Sensing and Worldviews: Urban Landscapes from a Preindustrial Perspective [Georges Farhat]
  • I. Earthworks
    • 2. Space and Structure in Early Mesopotamian Cities [Jason A. Ur]
    • 3. Landscape Change and Ceremonial Praxis in Medieval Rome: From the Via Triumphalis to the Via Papalis [Hendrik W. Dey]
    • 4. What Constituted Cahokian Urbanism? [Timothy R. Pauketat]
  • II. Waterscapes
    • 5. Hydraulic Landscapes of Roman and Byzantine Cities [Jordan Pickett]
    • 6. Monsoon Landscapes and Flexible Provisioning in the Preindustrial Cities of the Indian Subcontinent [Monica L. Smith]
    • 7. The Phnom Kulen Capital: A Singular and Early Case of Landscape Construction in Ancient Cambodia [Jean-Baptiste Chevance]
    • 8. The Weave of Natural and Cultural Ecology: Ekamrakshetra—the Historic Temple Town of Bhubaneswar, India [Priyaleen Singh]
  • III. Forestry
    • 9. Xingu Garden Cities: Amazonian Urban Landscapes, or What? [Michael Heckenberger]
    • 10. “when the King breaks a town he builds another”: Politics, Slavery, and Constructed Urban Landscapes in Tropical West Africa [J. Cameron Monroe]
  • Epilogue
  • Contributors
  • Index

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