City / edited by Don Martindale and
- London Heinemann 1960
- 242p.
This book is about - PREFATORY REMARKS: The Theory of the City The First Form of American City Theory Rise of the Ecological Theory of the City Notes on a Social-Psychological Theory of the City European Developments in Urban Theory
Max Weber and European Urban Theory
Max Weber's Relevance for American Urban Theory
1: THE NATURE OF THE CITY
Economic Character of the City: Market Settlement
Types of Consumer and Producer City
Relation of the City to Agriculture The Politico-Administrative Concept of the City
Fortress and Garrison The City as the Fusion of Fortress and Market Associational and Status Peculiarities of the
Occidental City
2: THE OCCIDENTAL CITY
Property Rights and Personal Legal Situation Fraternization and the Formation of the Polis Magical Barriers to Oriental Civic Development Disruption of the Clans as a Prerequisite of Fraternization Significance of the Clans for the Ancient and the Medieval City The Oath-Bound Confederation in the Occident
Sociological Significance of Civic Unity Fraternization in the Germanic North
Military Competence of the Citizen in Occidental Development
3: THE PATRICIAN CITY IN ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
The Nature of the Patrician City
Monopolistically Closed Patrician Dominion in Venice Patrician Development in Other Italian Communes
Royal Restriction of Civic Oligarchy in England Dominance of Political Patricians and Guilds in
Northern Europe Charismatic Clans of Antiquity
The Ancient Patrician City as a Coastal Settlement of Warriors
Contrasts with the Medieval City
The Economic Structure of the Patrician City
4: THE PLEBEIAN CITY
The Revolutionary Nature of the "Popolo" as a Political Association
Distribution of Power Among the Social Classes
of the Medieval Italian City
Parallelism Between the Roman Tribunes and
Spartan Ephors Comparative Structure of Ancient and
Medieval Democracy
The City Tyrannies in Antiquity and the Middle Ages The Special Position of the Medieval Italian City Wariations in the Medieval Urban Community POLITICAL AUTONOMY
AUTONOMOUS LAW OF THE CITY AND ITS GUILDS AUTOCEPHALY: AN AUTONOMOUS LEGAL AND
ADMINISTRATIVE MAGISTRACY TAX POWER OVER THE BURGHERS AND TRIBUTE AND TAX FREEDOM TOWARD THE OUTSIDE
MARKET REGULATION: TRADE AND CRAFT POLICY AND MONOPOLISTIC EXCLUSION POWERS RELATION OF THE MEDIEVAL CITY TO NON-CIVIC STRATA
The City and the Church
5. ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL DEMOCRACY
The Three Main Types of Occidental Cities
Class Oppositions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
The Ancient Democracy of Small Peasants; The Medieval Democracy of Professional Traders Developmental Differences Between Hellas and Rome Military Orientation of Interests in the Ancient City The Dominance of Peaceful Economic Interests in
the Medieval City
Negatively Privileged Status Groups as Bearers of of Rational Economic Technology in Antiquity THE BONDSMEN
DEBT SLAVES
CLIENTS
THE ENFRANCHISED
Contrasts of the Ancient Polis as a Warrior's Guild to the Commercial Inland City of the Middle Ages Special Character of Roman Democracy in Contrast to the Greek