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Author Rose-Redwood, Reuben

Title Gridded Worlds
Published Cham : Springer, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (299 pages)
Contents Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Gridded Spaces, Gridded Worlds; Introduction; Contrasting Perspectives on the Urban Grid; From the Search for Authentic Origins to Anti-Essentialist Critiques of the Grid; From the Grid as an Instrument of Social Control to the "Cosmo-Magical" Pivot of the World; From Eurocentric Narratives of Urban Form to the Entangled Spatial Histories of the Grid; Gridded Worlds: The Need for a Critical Anthology on the Urban Grid; References
Chapter 2: The Origin and Spread of the Grid-ƯPattern TownIntroduction; Arguments For and Against the Grid; Theories of Origin; The City of Mohenjo-Daro; A Continuing Tradition in India?; No Proven New World Examples; The Greek Record; Effects of Alexander's Conquests; The Roman Grid; The Medieval Collapse; The Renaissance; The Grid in France and England; Spain and the New World; References; Chapter 3: Genealogies of the Grid: Revisiting Stanislawski's Search for the Origin of the Grid-Pattern Town; Introduction; Stanislawski and the Origin of the Grid
Challenges to Stanislawski's Diffusionist Theory of the GridApproaching Gridded Spaces and Places Beyond the Search for Origins; Comparative Genealogies of the Grid: Crossing the Disciplinary Divide; References; Chapter 4: The City Shaped: The Grid; The Grid and Politics; "Better Order" or Routine; Laying Out the Grid; On the Site; Surveyors and Theorists; Coordinated Systems of Town and Country; Rural Grids; Gridded Extensions; The Grid in the 20th Century; References; Chapter 5: The Dark Side of the Grid Revisited: Power and Urban Design; Introduction
Developing a Typology of Approaches to PowerApplying the Framework to the Historical Record; The Grid in Societies of Globalizing Authority; Greeks, Eighth to Sixth Century BCE; Romans; Wari and Inca; Japan; European Colonies; The Grid in Societies of Centralizing Authority; Egypt; Babylon; Alexandria; China; Japan; Tenotchtitlan; The Grid in Societies of Diffusing Authority; Harappan Cities; Greek Cities, Fifth Century BCE; Teotihuacan; Early America; Utopian Communes; Contrasting Patterns; The Contemporary Grid; Conclusion; References
Chapter 6: Plan and Constitution: Aristotle's Hippodamus: Towards an "Ostensive" Definition of Spatial PlanningPolitical Philosopher and Town Planner; The "Physical" and the "Social" Division of Cities; Land, Nomos and Citizenship; Spatial Control and Social Control; Innovation and Tradition; Rules, Customs, and Tastes: Notes for a Theory of a Spatial Plan; Grid, Customs, and Tastes; Ideal Models of Grid; Grids and the Spatial Plan; Spatial Plans and Citizenship; References; Chapter 7: City Plan as Ideology: Reading the Configuration of Beijing in Ming-Qing China; Introduction
Notes Building Beijing as the Capital of China
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Author Bigon, Liora
ISBN 9783319764900
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