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Cities & People: A Social and Architectural History

by Mark Girouard

Hardcover, 1985

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Available

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Genres

Academic: History

General Nonfiction

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1985.

Description

This social and aesthetic history of the world's major cities from antiquity to the present focuses on crucial periods of the cities' past and examines their architecture in light of the men and women who used it.

Subjects

Architecture and society History

Cities and towns History

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