Architecture, United States, Specific Demographics, Urban 

London, Paris, Venice, New York, Rome, Constantinople - the cities of the world have captured man's imagination for generations. In this lively, sumptuously illustrated book, the author of the best-selling 'Life In The English Country House' takes us on a tour of cities and their people through the centuries. Focusing on carefully selected cities at crucial periods in their history, Mark Girouard looks at their architecture and design in the light of the needs of the men and women who lived in them.
 

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 - from Amzon 

CONTENTS
PART 1: The City Reborn……………………………………………………………....p. 1
1. The Revival of the West………………………………………………….p. 3
2. Manufacture, Trade, and Money…………………………………….p. 15
3. Church and State…………………………………………………………….p. 41
4. The Texture of Life………………………………………………………….p. 67
5. Bruges and Venice………………………………………………………….p. 85
PART 2: The City Triumphant………………………………………………………..p. 113
6. ROME resplendent…………………………………………………………..p. 115
7. The Rise of the North……………………………………………………..p. 137
8. Amsterdam and Paris……………………………………………………...p. 151
9. The Uses of Leisure…………………………………………………………..p. 181
10. A new Scale……………………………………………………………………..p. 211
11. The City as Export……………………………………………………………p. 233
PART 3: THE EXPLODING CITY………………………………………………………. P. 255
12. Manchester and the Industrial City…………………………………...p. 257
13. London and the Growth of the suburb……………………………...p. 271
14. Paris and the Boulevards……………………………………………….....p. 285
15. America and the Birth of the Skyscraper………………………....p. 301
16. Cities Round the World………………………………………………....……p. 325
17. Babylon or Jerusalem………………………………………………………....p. 343