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The Urban mind : cultural and environmental dynamics / edited by Paul J.J. Sinclair, Gullög Nordquist, Frands Herschend and Christian Isendahl.

Contributor(s): Sinclair, Paul J. J | Nordquist, Gullög | Herschend, Frands | Isendahl, Christian | Wrang, Laura | Uppsala universitet. Afrikansk och jämförande arkeologi | Uppsala universitet. Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Studies in global archaeology ; 15Publication details: Uppsala, Sweden : African and Comparative Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 2010. Description: 618 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 31 cmISBN: 9789150621754; 9150621750Subject(s): Cities and towns, Ancient | Urbanization -- History | Culture and globalization -- History | City dwellers -- History | Civilization, AncientGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: A307.76 LOC classification: HT114 | .U76 2010
Contents:
Urban mind: a thematic introduction / Paul J.J. Sinclair -- Climate variability in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East during the Holocene / Martin Finné and Karin Holmgren -- Cultural interaction and cognitive expressions in the formation of Ancient Near Eastern societies / Kristina J. Hesse -- Climate change, ecology and early sedentism in interaction: visible traces of the early urban mind in Continental and Northern Europe / Julia Mattes -- Cities and urban landscapes in the Ancient Near East and Egypt with special focus on the city of Babylon / Olof Pedersén, Paul J.J. Sinclair, Irmgard Hein and Jakob Andersson -- Social and environmental dynamics in Bronze and Iron Age Greece / Erika Weiberg, Michael Lindblom, Birgitta Leppänen Sjöberg and Gullög Nordquist -- Urban mind is the normalcy of urbanity / Svante Fischer and Frands Herschend -- Role of natural phenomena in the rise and fall of urban areas in the Sistan Basin on the Iranian Plateau (Southern Delta) / Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz -- Concepts of the city-state in Ancient Greece / Susanne Carlsson -- Long-term resilience: the reconstruction of the Ancient Greek polis of Kos after earthquakes in the period c. 200 BCE to c. 200 CE / Kerstin Höghammar -- Fall and decline of the Roman urban mind / Svante Fischer, Hans Lejdegård and Helena Victor -- Why are the so-called dead cities of Northern Syria dead? / Witold Witakowski -- Lost in the city: an essay on Christian attitudes towards urbanism in Late Antiquity / Mats Eskhult -- Constantinople in the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages / Ewa Balicka-Witakowska -- Urban Anthropocene: lessons for sustainability from the environmental history of Constantinople / John Ljungkvist, Stephan Barthel, Göran Finnveden and Sverker Sörlin
Innovative memory and resilient cities: echoes from Ancient Constantinople / Stephan Barthel, Sverker Sörlin and John Ljungkvist -- What's in a name? Mistra -- the town / Gullög Nordquist -- Linguistic landscape of Istanbul in the seventeenth century / Éva Á. Csató, Bernt Brendemoen, Lars Johanson, Claudia Römer and Heidi Stein -- Multilingualism and language contact in Urban centres along the Silk Road during the first millennium AD / Christiane Schaefer -- Is there an "urban mind" in Balochi literature? / Carina Jahani -- 'James His Towne' and village nations: cognitive urbanism in early colonial America / Neil Price -- Early urbanism in Scandinavia / Charlotta Hillerdal -- Greening the ancient city: the Agro-Urban landscapes of the pre-Hispanic Maya / Christian Isendahl -- Southeast Asian urban minds: an example from Laos / Anna Karlström -- Conceptualising the urban mind in pre-European Southern Africa: rethinking Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe / Munyaradzi Manyanga, Innocent Pikirayi and Shadreck Chirikure -- Towards an archaeology of the future: the urnab mind, energy regimes and long-term settlement system dynamics on the Zimbabwe Plateau / Paul J.J. Sinclair.
Action note: committed to retain 20181001 in perpetuity ReCAP Shared CollectionSummary: "40 scholars in Uppsala University, Stockholm University and KTH have formulated the concept as part of the IHOPE (Integrated History and future of Peoples on Earth) initiative. The concept will be assessed with a specific case study: Byzantium-Istanbul. The global relevance of the Urban Mind concept will be illustrated with ongoing studies of cognitive aspects of urbanism and climate change in Africa, Eurasia and the Americas."-- Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Urban mind: a thematic introduction / Paul J.J. Sinclair -- Climate variability in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East during the Holocene / Martin Finné and Karin Holmgren -- Cultural interaction and cognitive expressions in the formation of Ancient Near Eastern societies / Kristina J. Hesse -- Climate change, ecology and early sedentism in interaction: visible traces of the early urban mind in Continental and Northern Europe / Julia Mattes -- Cities and urban landscapes in the Ancient Near East and Egypt with special focus on the city of Babylon / Olof Pedersén, Paul J.J. Sinclair, Irmgard Hein and Jakob Andersson -- Social and environmental dynamics in Bronze and Iron Age Greece / Erika Weiberg, Michael Lindblom, Birgitta Leppänen Sjöberg and Gullög Nordquist -- Urban mind is the normalcy of urbanity / Svante Fischer and Frands Herschend -- Role of natural phenomena in the rise and fall of urban areas in the Sistan Basin on the Iranian Plateau (Southern Delta) / Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz -- Concepts of the city-state in Ancient Greece / Susanne Carlsson -- Long-term resilience: the reconstruction of the Ancient Greek polis of Kos after earthquakes in the period c. 200 BCE to c. 200 CE / Kerstin Höghammar -- Fall and decline of the Roman urban mind / Svante Fischer, Hans Lejdegård and Helena Victor -- Why are the so-called dead cities of Northern Syria dead? / Witold Witakowski -- Lost in the city: an essay on Christian attitudes towards urbanism in Late Antiquity / Mats Eskhult -- Constantinople in the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages / Ewa Balicka-Witakowska -- Urban Anthropocene: lessons for sustainability from the environmental history of Constantinople / John Ljungkvist, Stephan Barthel, Göran Finnveden and Sverker Sörlin

Innovative memory and resilient cities: echoes from Ancient Constantinople / Stephan Barthel, Sverker Sörlin and John Ljungkvist -- What's in a name? Mistra -- the town / Gullög Nordquist -- Linguistic landscape of Istanbul in the seventeenth century / Éva Á. Csató, Bernt Brendemoen, Lars Johanson, Claudia Römer and Heidi Stein -- Multilingualism and language contact in Urban centres along the Silk Road during the first millennium AD / Christiane Schaefer -- Is there an "urban mind" in Balochi literature? / Carina Jahani -- 'James His Towne' and village nations: cognitive urbanism in early colonial America / Neil Price -- Early urbanism in Scandinavia / Charlotta Hillerdal -- Greening the ancient city: the Agro-Urban landscapes of the pre-Hispanic Maya / Christian Isendahl -- Southeast Asian urban minds: an example from Laos / Anna Karlström -- Conceptualising the urban mind in pre-European Southern Africa: rethinking Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe / Munyaradzi Manyanga, Innocent Pikirayi and Shadreck Chirikure -- Towards an archaeology of the future: the urnab mind, energy regimes and long-term settlement system dynamics on the Zimbabwe Plateau / Paul J.J. Sinclair.

"40 scholars in Uppsala University, Stockholm University and KTH have formulated the concept as part of the IHOPE (Integrated History and future of Peoples on Earth) initiative. The concept will be assessed with a specific case study: Byzantium-Istanbul. The global relevance of the Urban Mind concept will be illustrated with ongoing studies of cognitive aspects of urbanism and climate change in Africa, Eurasia and the Americas."-- Publisher's website.

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