- Cities and towns, History, Steden, Villes
Examines the development and nature of the city from Egypt to Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
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Cool, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Lewis Mumford
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 657
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World, Penguin in association with Secker and Warburg, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., NY
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780436296000
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First sentence
“What is the city?”
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