Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1950

Name: Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1950
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ISBN: 9780674543621

ISBN-10: 0674543629

ISBN-13: 9780674543621

Edition: 2nd 1995 (Revised)

Authors: Paul M. Hohenberg, Lynn Hollen Lees

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Europe became a land of cities during the last millennium. The story told in this book begins with North Sea and Mediterranean traders sailing away from Dorestad and Amalfi, and with warrior kings building castles to fortify their conquests. It tells of the dynamism of textile towns in Flanders and Ireland. While London and Hamburg flourished by reaching out to the world and once vibrant Spanish cities slid into somnlence, a Russian urban network slowly grew to rival that of the West. Later as the tide of industrialization swept over Europe, the most intense urban striving and then settled back into the merchant cities and baroque capitals of an earlier era. By tracing the large-scale…

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List price: $52.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/25/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Lynn Hollen Lees is Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania.



Introduction: Urdanization in Perspective



The Preindustrial Age: eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries



Structure and Functions of Medieval Towns



Systems of Early Cities



The Demography of Preindustrial Cities



The Industrial Age: Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries



Cities in the Early Modern European Economy



Beyond Baroque Urbanism



The Industrial Age: Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries



Industrial and the Cities



Urban Growth and Urban Systems



The Human Consequences of Industrial Urbanization



The Evolution and Control of Urban Space



Europe's Cities in the Twentieth Century


Appendix A: A Cyclical Model of an Economy


Appendix B: Size Distributions and the Ranks-Size Rule


Notes


Bibliography


Index