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Architecture Calendars




BOOKS ABOUT CITIES & URBAN PLANNING

The City in History
The City
in History:
Its Origins, Transformations, & Prospects


The City Shaped
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History




Teacher's Best - The Creative Process


Cities of the World Educational Posters & Prints “Mu...-My...-”
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Contemporary and historic cities ~

Mumbai

Munich

Mycenae



Gateway of India, Mumbai, India, Photographic Print
Gateway of India,
Mumbai, India,
Photographic Print

(18º58'30"N 72º49'33"E)

Mumbai, the largest city in India and the second most populous city in the world (14 million), began as fishing villages on seven islands along the west coast. The name Mumbai is from the goddess Mumbadevi, and Aai, “mother”; the Portuguese and English called the city Bombay.


Neues Rathaus and Marienplatz from the Tower of Peterskirche, Munich, Germany, Photographic Print
Neues Rathaus and Marienplatz from the Tower of Peterskirche, Munich, Germany,
Photographic Print

(48º8'0"N 11º34'0"E)

Munich, the third largest city in Germany (Berlin, Hamburg), is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

The city's name means “by the monks' place” derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city.

Notable people associated with Munich include: Orlando di Lasso, W.A. Mozart, Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Carl Orff, Franz Marc, Thomas Mann, Adolph Hitler, Wassily Kandinsky, Lola Montez, William of Ockham, Georg Ohm, Wilhelm Roetgen, Lucia Popp, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Vladimir Lenin, Feodor Lynen.


Royal Grave Circle "A", 16th century BC, Mycenae, Greece, Photographic Print
Royal Grave Circle "A",
16th century BC, Mycenae, Greece,
Photographic Print

(37º43'51"N 22º45'22"E)

In the second millennium BC Mycenae, as a military stronghold dominating much of southern Greece, was one of the major centers of Greek civilization.


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