HTC Flashcards
Wrote “Man Makes Himself”
V. Gordon Childe
Three age system: stone age, bronze age, iron age
V. Gordon Childe
Wrote “In the Mountains of Greece” and “The Greeks”
HDF Kitto
A city-state and self-governing community
Polis
Polluter pays principle
Plato
Intergenerational equity
Aristotle
Zoon politikon
Aristotle
Invented formal city planning, the grid city
Hippodamus of Miletus
Wrote “City Origins” and “Cities and European Civilizations”
Henri Pirenne
Said that trade revived cities during the 11th century
Henri Pirenne
Their layout became the basis for the Garden City and New Urbanism
Medieval cities
Wrote “Great Towns”
Friedrich Engels
An icon of international communism, a friend of Karl Marx’s
Friedrich Engels
Wrote “Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston”
Sam Bass Warner
Studied changes in urban life after the industrial revolution and social transformation
Sam Bass Warner
Wrote “Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States”
Kenneth T. Jackson
Studied the negative and social cultural effecs of the private automobile
Kenneth T. Jackson
Wrote “Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia” and “Urban Utopias of the 20th Century”
Robert Fisherman
Coined “technoburb” and “techno-city”
Robert Fisherman
Peripheral zones that have emerged as viable socio-economic units
Technoburb
A whole metropolitan region that has been transformed by the technoburb
Techno-city
Wrote “The City in History” and “The Culture of Cities”
Lewis Mumford
The city as a theatre of social action
Lewis Mumford
The most important are the natural environment and the spiritual values
Lewis Mumford
Studied migration, urban population, and majority-minority cities
Albert M. Camarillo
Proponent of new urbanism, eyes on the street, and street ballet
Jane Jacobs
7 books written by Jane Jacobs
- The Death & Life of Great American Cities
- The Economy of Cities
- Systems of Survival
- Dark Age Ahead
- The Question of Separatism
- Cities & the Wealth of Nations
- The Nature of Economies
Said that there were 2 layers of the creative class
Richard Florida
The 2 layers of the creative class
- Super creative core
2. Creative professionals
Studied globalization, migration, and exclusion
Ali Madanipour
Space of place, and space of flows
Manuel Castells