Cities then & now

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ISBN: 9780025024014
ISBN: 0025024019
Physical Description: 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm
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Publisher: New York, NY : Macmillan, ©1994.

General Note:	"Designed and produced by Quarto Inc."--Title page verso. "Each city features a major site as it looked at a key point in its history, printed on a transparent overlay and superimposed over a present-day color photograph"--Page 4 of cover.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Athens : the Agora, 435 -- Rome : the Imperial city, 27 BC -- Istanbul : Hagia Sophia and the royal palace, 6th century AD -- Jerusalem : the Old City and the Temple Mount, 1150 -- Florence : the city centre and Cathedral, 1425 -- Barcelona : the harbour and Old Town, 1570 -- Prague : the Lesser Town and Prague Castle, 1610 -- Amsterdam : the Old Town and Dam Square, 1630 -- Mexico City : the Zócalo and the royal palace, 1700 -- Paris : the Champs-Elysées and the Louvre Palace, 1740 -- London : the City of London and Southwark, c.1750 -- Washington, D.C. : Pennsylvania Avenue and the Capitol, 1860/70 -- Sydney : Sydney Cove and the city, 1888 -- Moscow : along the Moskva River, c.1890 -- Tokyo : along Nihombashi Street, 1909 -- San Francisco : Market Street and the business district, c.1916 -- Hong Kong : the waterfront and the central district, 1920s -- New York : Battery Park and Wall Street, 1930s -- Past visions of the future.
Summary, etc.:	Includes material on Athens, Istanbul, Florence, Prague, Mexico City, London, Sydney, San Francisco, and New York City.