Author: Richard Tame
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: cityscapes, history, cultural, london
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-09-28
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195309537
ISBN-13: 9780195309539

Richard Tames describes how London has been chronicled, described, celebrated, named, and mapped over the twenty centuries of its existence to become a city treasured even by those who have never set foot in it as a byword for innovation and diversity. This book has been written for those who, knowing London, know that it is too vast, too complex, too elusive ever to be fully known but yet would like to know it better still.

Author: Caroline Brooke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: cityscapes, history, cultural, moscow
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-09-18
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0195309529
ISBN-13: 9780195309522

Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artists, and composers who made the city their home.

Author: Louise McKinney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: cityscapes, history, cultural, orleans, new
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-04-20
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0195301358
ISBN-13: 9780195301359

Founded in 1718 by two French-Canadian brothers for French King Louis XIV, New Orleans grew from its roots as a Euro-Caribbean port city at the nexus of North, Central and South America. Situated at the bottom of the Mississippi River Delta, the city became "Paris on the Mississippi," the fashionable cultural capital of the American South, home to America’s first opera house and birthplace of jazz.Many think of New Orleans, with its antebellum mansions, above-ground cemeteries and ghostly moss-bearded oaks as a haunted place. It is certainly the most un-American of American cities, creat

Author: John Gill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: cityscapes, history, cultural, andalucia
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0195376102
ISBN-13: 9780195376104

A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andalucía has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilizations for more than ten thousand years. This book traces its origins from the earliest hominid settlers in the Granada mountains 1.8 million years ago, through successive Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Muslim cultures, and the past five hundred years of modern Castilian rule, up to and including the present day of post-modern novelists in Córdoba and Sevilla, guerrilla urban archaeologists in Torremolinos an

Author: Stephen Mansfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: cityscapes, history, cultural, tokyo
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0195386345
ISBN-13: 9780195386349

Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford’s Cityscapes series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the em

Author: Tony Griffiths
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: cityscapes, history, cultural, stockholm
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-11-25
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0195386388
ISBN-13: 9780195386387

Situated on one of the world’s most beautiful harbors, Stockholm has set the benchmark for civilized urban living since the time of the Vikings. Tony Griffiths reveals a city of power, intrigue, and murder; of scientists and investors; and a sensual city, home of Greta Garbo and the smörgåsbord. Its medieval period saw the Vasa dynasty turn a small town into the capital of a dominant European power and a major trading port. In the Napoleonic era, Stockholm established itself as a center of both technical and social innovation. While the city has suffered more than its fair share of mis

Author: Nicholas Parsons
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: cityscapes, history, cultural, vienna
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-12-16
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0195376072
ISBN-13: 9780195376074

From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Hapsburgs, Vienna’s fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, but the twentieth century saw it degraded to a ’hydrocephalus’ cut off from its former economic hinterland. After the inglorious Nazi interlude, Vienna began the long climb back to the prosperous and cultivated city of 1.7 million inhabitants that it is today. Subjected to constant infusions of new, Vienna has both assimilated a