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In The City in History1 Lewis Mumford summarised what various scholars had found about the birth of the ancient city. Among other factors, he mentioned the following:
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A city develops around a tomb or a cemetery as the meeting place of a tribe;
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The first broad street of an ancient city is laid out for sacred processions and marching soldiers, rather than for moving vehicles;
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The emergence of a city involves the transition from universal participation in village rituals to a distinction between the city actors (the king and his staff) and the non-participating, but applauding city audience;
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The city is associated with the enslavement of the agricultural population and with forced labour.
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Lewis Mumford, The City in History. Its Origins, Its Transformations and Its Prospects (Harcourt. Brace. Jovanovich 1961)
Lev Nikulin, ‘Chetvert’ veka v Moskve’, in Moskva (sbornik) (Moscow: Rabochaya Moskva, 1935).
Professor G. Dubelir in 1918, in Iz istorii sovetskoi arkhitektury. Dokumenty i materialy vol. 1 (Moscow, Nauka, 1963) p. 16.
Robert Venturi et al., Learning from Las Vegas (Cambridge, 1977).
Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow. Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Oxford University Press, 1986).
Geoffrey A. Hosking, The First Socialist Society. A History of the Soviet Union from Within (Harvard University Press, 1986) p. 167.
Cf. Katerina Clark, The Soviet Novel. History as Ritual (University of Chicago Press, 1981) p. 114.
Lawrence N. Langer, ‘The Historiography of the Preindustrial Russian City’, Journal of Urban History vol. 5, no. 2, February 1979.
M.G. Rabinovich, Ocherki ètnografii russkogo feodal’nogo goroda (Moscow: Nauka, 1978) p. 53.
Henri Pirenne, Medieval Cities. Their Origins and the revival of trade translated by Frank D. Halsey (Princeton University Press, 1925).
Max Weber, The City translated and edited by Don Martindale and Gertrud Neuwirth (Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, 1958).
Lawrence N. Langer, ‘The Historiography of the Preindustrial Russian City’, Journal of Urban History vol. 5, no. 2, February 1979, p. 211.
Henri Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods. A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature (University of Chicago Press, 1968).
Robert A. Lewis and Richard H. Rowland, ‘Urbanization in Russia and the USSR, 1897–1970’, The City in Russian History ed. by Michael F. Hamm (University Press of Kentucky, 1976) p. 208.
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Paperny, V. (1990). Moscow in the 1930s and the Emergence of a New City. In: Günther, H. (eds) The Culture of the Stalin Period. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20651-3_12
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