Political Landscapes of Capital Cities investigates the processes of transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically d

"Develops a geographic approach to the politics of spectacle and its unspectacular Others through examining recent spectacular capital city development projects

This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divi

The Foundation of Australia's Capital Cities is the story of how the places chosen for Australia's seven colonial capitals came to shape their unique urban char

The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles h