Screen LibraryTransforming space : visible and invisible changes in premodern European cities /
"Transforming Space' deals with visible and invisible changes in pre-modern cities, their causes and the way in which they were perceived and received. The chapters in this book analyse the development and management of urban space, combining case studies and insights from a range of citie...
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Brepols Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Turnhout : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in European urban history (1100-1800),
volume 58 |
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| Summary: |
"Transforming Space' deals with visible and invisible changes in pre-modern cities, their causes and the way in which they were perceived and received. The chapters in this book analyse the development and management of urban space, combining case studies and insights from a range of cities from all over Europe. Several contributions deal with the impact of major events on the urban tissue: geopolitics; disasters such as fires or wars; expropriation or redevelopment projects directed by urban governments; religious change such as the Dissolution in England, and the Reformation and Counter-Reformation on the continent. On closer scrutiny, however, some of these major events were only an accelerator of already ongoing processes of change. By shifting the perspective from the city as a whole, to neighbourhoods, urban blocks or even plots of land, other chapters reveal how functional change or real estate dynamics changed the urban landscape almost imperceptibly. This book is written from a comparative perspective that takes into account path-dependency. Pre-existing power relations, ideology and mentality, the resilience of property structures, the impact of building regulations, subsidies, or the effects of real estate markets are shown to have had different outcomes for different social groups and the evolution of neighbourhoods"--Back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | 250 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9782503579849 2503579841 |
| Index Number: | HT131 |
| CLC: |
TU984.5 C912.81 |
| Call Number: | C912.81/T772-4 |
| Contents: |
Transforming space. Visible and invisible changes in premodern European cities / Ravaging, reconstructing and reshaping. The transformation of townscape in Turku, 1300-1830 / Medieval Silesian cities and their transformations in the Late Middle Ages / Up in smoke. The transforming power of fire safety policies in the Low Countries, 1250-1550 / Redevelopment in monastic towns of Late Medieval and Early Modern England / Continuity in change. A comparison between the centres of Bologna and Strasbourg, 1200-1650 / The measure of success. The case of the Strada Maqueda in Palermo, 1600-1750 / From pigsties to palaces. The demolition of Amsterdam's late-medieval town walls and the transformation of its edge zone / Location and transformation. Changing plot structures in existing housing blocks in Bruges, 16th-19th centuries / Intramural improvements. The redevelopment of Newcastle upon Tyne in the long eighteenth century / |