Metamorphoses of the City On the Western Dynamic 1st Edition by Pierre Manent, Marc LePain ISBN 0674072944 9780674072947

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ISBN 10: 0674072944 
ISBN 13: 9780674072947
Author: Pierre Manent, Marc LePain

What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped by the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Manent. A major achievement by one of Europe’s most influential political philosophers, Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe’s ambition since ancient times to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, and a reflection on what it means to be modern.

Manent’s genealogy of the nation-state begins with the Greek city-state, the polis. With its creation, humans ceased to organize themselves solely by family and kinship systems and instead began to live politically. Eventually, as the polis exhausted its possibilities in warfare and civil strife, cities evolved into empires, epitomized by Rome, and empires in turn gave way to the universal Catholic Church and finally the nation-state. Through readings of Aristotle, Augustine, Montaigne, and others, Manent charts an intellectual history of these political forms, allowing us to see that the dynamic of competition among them is a central force in the evolution of Western civilization.

Scarred by the legacy of world wars, submerged in an increasingly technical transnational bureaucracy, indecisive in the face of proliferating crises of representative democracy, the European nation-state, Manent says, is nearing the end of its line. What new metamorphosis of the city will supplant it remains to be seen.

Metamorphoses of the City On the Western Dynamic 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Origins and Early Forms

• Ancient Cities and Urban Foundations

• Roman Urban Planning

• Medieval Urbanism

Chapter 2: Renaissance and Baroque Transformations

• The Rise of the Modern City

• Civic Architecture and Urban Design

• Social and Cultural Dynamics

Chapter 3: Industrialization and Urban Expansion

• The Industrial City

• Infrastructure and Transportation

• Socioeconomic Impacts on Urban Life

Chapter 4: Modernist Visions

• Early 20th-Century Urban Planning

• Functionalism and the Garden City Movement

• Modernist Architecture and the Cityscape

Chapter 5: Post-War Reconstruction and Planning

• Urban Renewal and Housing Developments

• Planning for the Automobile

• Suburbanization and Sprawl

Chapter 6: Contemporary Urban Dynamics

• Globalization and the City

• Gentrification and Social Change

• Sustainability and Smart Cities

Chapter 7: The Future of the Western City

• Trends in Urban Policy

• Technology and Urban Life

• Challenges and Prospects

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