Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader

<p>The <em>Pre-Industrial Cities Reader</em> is designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the accompanying <em>Pre-Industrial Cities:</em> Open University textbook in the same series. Compiled as a reference source for students this reader is divided into three main sections presenting key readings on: Ancient Cities Medieval and Early Modern Cities and Pre-Industrial Cities in China and Africa. Among the technologies discussed are: agricaultural innovations such as the heavy plough water transport the medieval road revolution the first urban public transport aqueducts building materials such as brick and Roman concrete weaponry and fortifications water clocks street lighting and fire-fighting. Among the cities covered are: Uruk Babylon Thebes Athens Rome Constantinople Baghdad Siena Florence Antwerp London Paris Amsterdam Mexico City Hangzhou Beijing and Hankou.</p>