The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994: With a New Preface and a New Chapter / Edition 2

The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994: With a New Preface and a New Chapter / Edition 2

ISBN-10:
0674543629
ISBN-13:
9780674543621
Pub. Date:
11/25/1995
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10:
0674543629
ISBN-13:
9780674543621
Pub. Date:
11/25/1995
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994: With a New Preface and a New Chapter / Edition 2

The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994: With a New Preface and a New Chapter / Edition 2

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Overview

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 somnolence, 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 settled back into the merchant cities and baroque capitals of an earlier era.

By tracing the large-scale processes of social, economic, and political change within cities, as well as the evolving relationships between town and country and between city and city, the authors present an original synthesis of European urbanization within a global context. They divide their study into three time periods, making the early modern era much more than a mere transition from preindustrial to industrial economies. Through both general analyses and incisive case studies, Paul M. Hohenberg and Lynn Hollen Lees show how cities originated and what conditioned their early development and later growth. How did urban activity respond to demographic and technological changes? Did the social consequences of urban life begin degradation or inspire integration and cultural renewal? New analytical tools suggested by a systems view of urban relations yield a vivid dual picture of cities both as elements in a regional and national hierarchy of central places and also as junctions in a transnational network for the exchange of goods, information, and influence.

A lucid text is supplemented by numerous maps, illustrations, figures, and tables, and by a substantial bibliography. Both a general and a scholarly audience will find this book engrossing reading.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674543621
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/25/1995
Edition description: REVISED
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 5.94(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Paul M. Hohenberg is Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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

Table of Contents

Introduction: Urdanization in Perspective

PART I: The Preindustrial Age: eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries

1. Structure and Functions of Medieval Towns

2. Systems of Early Cities

3. The Demography of Preindustrial Cities

PART II: The Industrial Age: Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

4. Cities in the Early Modern European Economy

5. Beyond Baroque Urbanism

PART III: The Industrial Age: Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries

6. Industrial and the Cities

7. Urban Growth and Urban Systems

8. The Human Consequences of Industrial Urbanization

9. The Evolution and Control of Urban Space

10. 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

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