A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas

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On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Prologue : Origins -- Settings and settlements, 2000 BCE -- Early urban realms and ideological landscapes, 0 BCE -- Cities, states, and empires, 1000 CE -- Patterns of European colonization and building, 1600 CE -- Key colonial towns and regional architectural elements, 1760 CE -- Architecture and identity, 1800 CE -- Transportation and industrialization, 1860 CE -- Beautiful cities and new technologies, 1900 CE -- Varieties of modernity, 1930 CE -- Epilogue : Futurama.
"The first comprehensive survey to narrate the urbanization of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, making it a vital resource to help you understand the built environment in this part of the world. The book combines the latest scholarship about the indigenous past with an environmental history approach covering issues of climate, geology, and biology, so that you'll see the relationship between urban and rural in a new, more inclusive way." --back cover.

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