Continuing City

James E. Vance, Jr., is emeritus professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Continuing City, also available from Johns Hopkins.

A tour de force that few could rival... It manages to combine the functions of student textbook and library reference work, as well as being a natural addition to the study shelves of the professional urban morphologist. Progress in Human Geography

• PrefacePreface to the Original EditionChapter 1. Introduction: Urban MorphogenesisChapter 2. The Gods Look Down: The Classical CityChapter 3. The Disintegration Into Feudalism and the Dawn of FreedomChapter 4. The Expression of Liberalism: The Face of the Medieval CityChapter 5. A Town for Everyman: The Late-Medieval BastideChapter 6. The Prince's Capital and the Merchant's Town Chapter 7. The Revolution of Economy and Evolution of the City: Urban Morphogenesis in the Industrial AgeChapter 8. Urban Form in the Modern World: The Emergence of the Complex City, 1845–1945 Chapter 9. Urban Morphogenesis Since 1945: The Rise of the Complex CityIndex