{"product_id":"tarih-boyunca-kent_349029-html","title":"The City Through History","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eShould we be surprised that a city design is always at the heart of utopias? Considering the processes mediated by the city, the functions it performs, and its effects on human life, this is not surprising at all. Of course, a city is not merely composed of material structures. Besides being the largest social unit with physical integrity and tangibility, the city is both the creator and the nexus of a vast network of social relationships. Unlike the nomad's winter quarters and the village, it is the place where humans encounter, interact with, and live alongside \"those unlike themselves,\" the \"stranger.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 10px; poverty-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eAs Rousseau put it, \"houses make a village, a town, but citizens make a city.\" Therefore, from Plato to Thomas More, from Fourier to today, we should not be surprised when those who set out to imagine a better world begin by sketching a city as they concretize and elaborate their dreams. Perhaps, in fact, we should be surprised by the relative scarcity of theoretical research on the city. The American thinker Lewis Mumford, who worked in a wide range of fields from urban planning to the history of art and culture, from technology to social criticism, took the first and giant step towards meeting this need with his masterpiece, The City in History.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eIn this book, Mumford writes both a history of the evolution of cities and a history of civilization with the city at its focal point. Tracing the creative and destructive possibilities of the city back to prehistoric times, he takes the reader from Mesopotamia and Egypt, through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages, through the capitals of European monarchies and industrial cities, to the crossroads of today's world. The City in History is a book that calls people to think, discuss, and take a stand at this crossroads where possibilities and risks have reached colossal dimensions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ayrıntı Yayınları","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39409080074435,"sku":"9789755392769","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/products\/9789755392769.jpg?v=1616018876","url":"https:\/\/yemkitabevi.com\/en-us\/products\/tarih-boyunca-kent_349029-html","provider":"YEM Kitabevi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}