Joyce Marcus & Jeremy A. Sabloff "The Ancient City" Flashcards
Early cities were created abruptly. Why?
As a religious act.
Ezra Park & _______
Ernest Burgess
Ezra Park & Ernest Burgess “_______ zone model”
concentric
Other models besides the concentric zone model?
“sector model” (like a spider web) “multiple nuclei model”
What model did Louis Wirth make?
“residential” model
Rather than models, Childe & Mumford also used the …
“comparative approach”
What was Anthony Leeds “radical skepticism” about the entire thing?
Anthony Leeds refused to distinguish between cities and villages – because what’s a village?
Wheatley focused on …
Wheatley focused on Chinese cities as microcosms of the universe.
For Monica Smith, what was the difference between pre- and post- industrial cities?
Not much. Both “act back” on residents.
What is one reason why large groups of people would have wanted to “huddle together” to begin with?
Fear of being raided.
Cities built in keeping with a cosmology can be called …
cosmograms (like a mandala?)
Robert Redfield preferred what term (to abolish the differences between city and village)?
“folk-urban continuum”
Who used the term “folk-urban continuum” to escape the duality?
Robert Redfield
Cities are the ____ that cannot exist without the _____ ~Hall
Cities are the forests that cannot exist without the trees ~_____
The best way to understand why cities are not villages is to look at ________________________ ~Hall
… the conditions that gave way to their creation ~Hall
