Format:
1 Online-Ressource (506 pages)
ISBN:
9781614514589
Series Statement:
Studies in Ancient near Eastern Records (SANER) Ser v.11
Content:
Intro -- Preface to the Italian Edition -- Contents -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Journals -- Series -- 1 Rediscovery and perplexity -- 1.1 The ruins and the biblical curse -- 1.2 Imagining unknown cities -- 1.3 The rediscovery of the Assyrian capitals -- 1.4 The techniques of excavation and the problems of visibility -- 1.5 Ancient cities and eastern cities -- the material, and the values -- 1.6 Ideology and town planning: a city and not a city -- 1.7 From the Assyrians to the Sumerians -- 1.8 Stripping the tell -- 2 Acceptance and modification -- 2.1 The 'discovery of bricks' and the architectural revolution -- 2.2 From Liberty to Bauhaus: the city takes form -- 2.3 The ancient descriptions -- 2.4 Imagining Jerusalem -- 2.5 Above the flood plain: Anatolia and Iran -- 2.6 The Near-Eastern village and its eclipse -- 2.7 Evolutionism and economic history -- 2.8 Max Weber: the separate ways -- 2.9 Anna Schneider and the Sumerian temple-city -- 2.10 New procedures: the inventory of the country -- 2.11 New procedures: excavation by squares -- 2.12 The 'colonial' excavations: palaces and urban neighbourhoods -- 2.13 Henri Frankfort, from Egypt to the Diyala -- 3 The season of theoretical models -- 3.1 Gordon Childe: the urban revolution and evolutionary heritage -- 3.2 Thorkild Jacobsen and 'primitive democracy' -- 3.3 Igor Diakonoff, the 'Asiatic mode' and the residual village -- 3.4 Karl Wittfogel and the 'hydraulic' city -- 3.5 Karl Polanyi and the redistributive city -- 3.6 The Chicago school: 'City Invincible' and the young Adams -- 3.7 The wider scenes: Mumford, Sjoberg, Jacobs -- 3.8 Neo-evolutionism: city and archaic state -- 3.9 After Babylon: Greek urbanization and the Islamic city -- 4 The new models in practice -- 4.1 Robert Braidwood, the Jarmo project and the arrival of the palaeo-sciences
Content:
4.2 Robert Adams and the Diyala Basin Project: territorial and demographic analyses -- 4.3 Leo Oppenheim and the Sippar project: 'great organizations' and communities of citizens -- 4.4 Primary and secondary urbanization -- 4.5 The cycles of urbanization -- 4.6 The contest for the first city -- 4.7 New frontiers: from the Nile to the Indus to Central Asia -- 4.8 The shape of the city and the new foundations -- 5 Modernity: new approaches and new settings -- 5.1 The 'zero stratum' of the tell and the ethno-archaeological model -- 5.2 The neo-geographic models and the settlement hierarchies -- 5.3 Site catchment analysis and the urban-rural continuum -- 5.4 The village and the communal bodies -- 5.5 The revival of architecture: the French school -- 5.6 The revival of architecture: the German school -- 5.7 The crisis of the palace -- 5.8 The crisis of the temple -- 5.9 City-state and state-city -- 5.10 The neo-liberalist model: market and entrepreneurs -- 5.11 The 'world-system' and the expansion of Uruk -- 5.12 North and South, centre and periphery -- 5.13 The theory of systems and the question of collapse -- 5.14 The climatic factor and the early environment -- 5.15 The demographic factor -- 6 Post-modernity: computerization and deconstruction -- 6.1 Tourist enjoyment and totalizing restoration -- 6.2 Political instability and growing costs: the virtual excavation -- 6.3 Simulations and computer graphics -- 6.4 Globalization: Eastern and Western -- 6.5 Generalized complexity and continuism -- 6.6 Anti-state localism: the oikos revisited -- 6.7 Non-places and non-cities: the structure denied -- 6.8 Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781614516026
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Liverani, Mario Imagining Babylon : The Modern Story of the Ancient City Boston : De Gruyter, Inc.,c2016 ISBN 9781614516026
Language:
English
Author information:
Liverani, Mario 1939-
