Medieval urban planning : the monastery and beyond /

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Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Description:vi, 248 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Map Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11039749
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Other authors / contributors:Abel, Mickey, editor.
ISBN:1443843172
9781443843171
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-245).
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Medieval Urban Planning: The Monastery and Beyond
  • Chapter 1. Water as the Philosophical and Organizational Basis for an "Urban" Community Plan: The Case of Maillezais Abbey
  • Chapter 2. Decoding the Planning Rules of the Monastic Urban and Rural Forms around Samos Abbey
  • Chapter 3. Riparian Geography and Hegemonic Power in the Severn Valley: Glastonbury Abbey's Canals and Rivers as Definitions of Urban Space
  • Chapter 4. "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home": The Contributions of Peripatetic Ymagiers to the Emergence of Urbs
  • Chapter 5. Founders' Concepts of Space in the First Bastides
  • Chapter 6. How Urban was Urban for the Mendicants in Medieval Tuscany?
  • Chapter 7. A Fourteenth-Century View on Urbanism: Francesch Eiximenis and Urban Planning in the Crown of Aragon
  • Chapter 8. Incremental Urbanism in Medieval Italy: The Example of Todi
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors