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"Investigates the transformation of landscapes into culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group uses a methodology to expose the associations between human-made environments and the natural landscape that accommodate socio-political needs of governmental authority"--
Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Spatial Turn and Political Landscapes of Capital Cities; 1 Akhenaten's Amarna in New Kingdom Egypt: Relations of Landscape and Ideology; 2 "Memorials of the Ability of Them All": Tetrarchic Displays in the Roman Forum's Central Area; 3 The Relational Spiritual Geopolitics of Constantinople, the Capital of the Byzantine Empire; 4 Beyond the Ashes: The Making of Bangkok as the Capital City of Siam; 5 Monumental Perceptions of the Tiwanaku Landscape.
6 The Inka Capital Cusco as the Model of an Imperial Cultural Landscape7 Making Landfall: Anchoring Authority in the Public and Private Political Sphere of the Basin of Mexico; 8 Provincial Capital vs. Peasant Capital: A Subaltern Perspective on Urban Rise and Fall from Grace; 9 La Parola al Piccone: Demonstrations of Fascism at the Imperial Fora and the Mausoleum of Augustus; 10 Tehran: A Revolution in Making; Conclusions: Ontological Relations and the Spatial Politics of Capital Cities; List of Contributors; Index.
edited by Jessica Joyce Christie, Jelena Bogdanović, and Eulogio Guzmøn.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2016