City / edited by Don Martindale and

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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