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The long climb of man from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic period, and then the Neolithic to the Bronze and Iron Ages, was accompanied by the progressive disappearance of the town and the emergence of the city. It meant that for a large part of human history, men lived in small, scattered settlements without a central governing authority. What made these settlements possible was an intimate belief in a personal God, who created the earth in six days, and who commanded His chosen people to have dominion on the earth.
This view, it might be added, has been evident (at least from the Bible to the present) in many areas of the world. The parallels between the Bible and the Koran are impressive, but not at all startling, since, after all, the two religions are a continuation of the same Judaic tradition.
The observations and discussions in this book offer a challenging and unique insight into both the structures and the functions of city life in the Middle Ages, and into the remarkable success of those medieval cities to which we owe so much today from the arts, to science, to medicine, to philosophy, to the “undiscovered country” of commerce and industry.
CHAPTER 1: THE CHILDREN OF RAIN AND SOIL The Rectilinear, Circular, Serpentine suburban pathways of Henry Murphy’s day, are again superseded by the liberal, open-grid convention of Alexander Garvin’s day.
The urban system as it developed in the second half of the nineteenth century was, in many cities, a purely visual construction. The modern metropolis was, in the majority of cases, an artificial, schematic production to be primarily visual; and the “modernity” of this metropolis was appropriately reflected in its visual environment. a3f8a02ae1