Capital Cities

by Rossman, Vadim

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Title Statements

Full title :Capital Cities.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
Place of Publication:Florence
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317562849, 1317562844, 9781317562856, 1317562852
oclc:ocn962149465
LC Classification:HT153
Dewey Decimal:307.76

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Disciplines, contexts, and categories; Certain assumptions and hypotheses; Plan of the book; 1 History and typology of capital cities; Preliminary definition; Functions of capital cities; Typology of capital cities; Historical types of capitals; History and arrangement of national capitals; 2 Capital city relocation experience; Principles of capital city siting; Capital city relocation in empires; Disembedded capitals: despotic states of the ancient East.

3 Capital city relocations and debates of this topic in different world regionsGenerations of national capitals; Post-colonial nation-building in Africa; Post-colonial nation-building in Asia; Southeast Asia; South Asia; The Far East; The Middle East; Post-colonial nation-building in Latin America; Post-Soviet countries; Europe; 4 Strategies of capital city relocations and their critics; The common themes in capital city relocations; Six integrative strategies for capital city relocations; Three strategies of an exclusive capital city.

The budgets and the appraisals of the relocation total costsAdministration and timetables of capital city shi…