SOSC 2730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lewis Mumford, Urban Design, Mercantilism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2730
• Professor: Lewis Code

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The structure of baroque power: what was the new" complex of cultural traits, mercantilist capitalism", the. What was the significance of using greco-roman building designs again: what were the political and economic changes that were taking place at this time, mumford identifies two significant elements of the baroque city. In the late-medieval period two powers competed for leadership in. Were they able to bring themselves together into political units that transcended the city-state: there were two places in western europe where enlarged territorial states were achieved without a loss of civic liberty". The city in history: reading guide: in medieval western europe the feudal lords established stability by moving their retinue (court) from one location to another. By the baroque period this movement more-or-less stopped. What was the only social grouping, with the exception of the state", that had legitimacy in the. Baroque period: with the new form of the state" individuals obtained economic privileges from the king.