Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History

by Mark Girouard

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

Genres: Architecture, History, Urbanism, Nonfiction, Geography, Sociology

401 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Mark Girouard FSA was a British architectural historian who was an authority on the country house, and Elizabethan and Victorian architecture.

Reviews

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating to discover the interplay of politics, trade, geology, industry and culture which led to formation of cities and to see how they have dramatically developed from the narrow medieval streets which we can still see in some cases today

[Alden · Rating 3 out of 5]

İstanbul>Constantinople

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

How does a city grow? Why does a city grow? This book shows. It's lovingly put together, like some cities, like most cities. Cities seem to go bad on their own. The problems of our modern cities are not new. Only the scale changes. I guess I'm a city slicker, like the author. He says Los Angeles could be the city of the future.

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Describes and explains the ebb and flow of city structures and the related cultural/political environments throughout history.