Pre-municipal cities, four typologies: Part 3f, The abbeys’ overreach and...
[Continued from the previous Part 3e and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3a, Part 3b, Part 3c, and Part 3d.] By: David A. Smith By now, to my astonishment and quite possibly yours, the...
View ArticlePre-municipal cities, four typologies: Part 4a, The manufacturing company town
[Continued from the previous Part 3f and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3a, Part 3b, Part 3c, Part 3d, and Part 3e.] By: David A. Smith Of the three pre-municipal urban typologies so far...
View ArticlePre-municipal cities, four typologies: Part 4b, The factory company factory town
[Continued from the previous Part 4a and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3a, Part 3b, Part 3c, Part 3d, Part 3e, and Part 3f.] By: David A. Smith Our journey through pre-municipal urban...
View ArticleMonth(s) in Review, June and July, 2016: Part 1, From Jeddah to castle
By: David A. Smith Beginning in June, I did something that I hadn’t done for over a decade – after having posted one installment every business day since mid-2005, I ended up skipping quite a few...
View ArticleMonth(s) in Review, June and July, 2016: Part 2, From abbey to Madonna
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] Yesterday’s Part 1 of the two-month retrospective covered my ruminations about walled cities, some of which, like Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,...
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