On The Characteristics Of Urban Development And The Reasons The Classical Period Of Athens

In the course of history of the world, the classical period of Greek history of the development of the peak and glorious period. City of Athens for its industrial and commercial prosperity, prosperous culture, democratic political reputation can be said that the development of the city of Athens has provided us with an understanding of the ancient world, the development of East-West road window. Investigated from the point of view of the history of the city of Athens, starting with the origin and initial formation of the city of Athens to proceed, and then explain to explain its development characteristics from the three aspects of the classical period, the city of Athens urban layout, urban structure and urban functions, and finally explore the classical period in Athens the profound causes of urban development. The two parts of the paper is divided into the introduction and body.Introduction introduces the scholars at home and abroad on the topic of the research status and research, discusses the purpose and significance of this writing, to clarify In this paper, the research methods and writing features and innovations.Body part consists of three chapters. Chapter I proceed from the historical background of the thesis discusses the City of Athens in the classical period the previous summarized, including its origin and early development, formation of the City of Athens to inspect a whole. First, the relationship between the city of Athens and the Mycenaean civilization began to analyze the association between both of them, to export its origin; Subsequently, through the interpretation of Theseus, Solon, Pei Xi Tela, Figure reform, indicating that they city of Athens formation and development role. The formation process of the City of Athens Acropolis and Plaza integration process, in essence, is the political, economic, cultural, military and other functions of the binding process.Chapter II as the core chapters, mainly on the characteristics of the development of the City of Athens in the classical period. In this paper, the development of the classical period, the city of Athens boils down to three points:First, the layout of the city of Athens formed the Acropolis and Plaza two mutually integrated dual-core, as the center of the City of Athens, many religious, municipal buildings around them and built houses surrounding it; Second, the City of Athens formed a diversified urban structure. The wide range of handicrafts, meticulous division of labor and specialization, and the emergence of competitive industries, such as pottery manufacturing, construction, when the business is unprecedented prosperity, not only frequent trading market within the city, and the two-way between the city plying their trade also increased; demographic and economic structure also appeared in a wide range of state, not only the citizens of the city, there are many Gentiles and slaves, they constitute the city’s main resident population, the development of the city to do a great contribution. Third, the City of Athens in the classical period there is a strong openness with popular features. Mainly for political democratization, all citizens can participate in politics in urban management, as the urban public, rather than for autocratic and centralized state; cultural ways, too, all citizens have the right to education, the city invested a lot of money for theatrical performances, payment of opera allowance for citizens, citizen participation, and religious celebrations Gentiles outside of the slaves can participate in activities; Athens economy is outward type, is not limited to internal production and consumption, it not only needs to import large quantities of food, in exchange for exports of industrial and commercial products and agricultural products.The third part, the author focuses on the reasons for the development of the City of Athens of the classical period. I was primarily due to the following factors:First, the geographic environmental factors on urban development, the second is the material basis of economic development for urban development, Athens politics provide an effective mechanism for urban development and institutional basis, religious culture of urban development, especially the role of the temple building and religious celebrations, is the role of the war on urban development, Persian War and the Peloponnesian War across the classical period, the former promotes the progress of the city, which eventually led to the decline of the City of Athens.