Transforming Space
Visible and invisible changes in premodern European cities
Edited by Jaap Evert Abrahamse Edited by Heidi Deneweth
Essays on the often-ignored spatial dynamism of pre-modern towns: about urban space gradually or radically adapting to the changing conditions of city life
This book is about the often-ignored spatial dynamism of pre-modern towns: the interaction between city life and urban space, as it was adapted to new conditions, slowly or more radically. The spatial development within cities is the response to social-economic processes and political decisions, but is at the same time determining these processes. In this volume the morphology of cities is analyzed on different levels of scale: from the individual cadastral plot, to the urban block, the neighbourhood, and the city as a whole. The chapters in this book analyze the development and management of urban space from a long-term comparative perspective, 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: disasters such as fires or wars; expropriation or redevelopment projects directed by urban governments; religious change such as the Dissolution in the UK, the secularisation of religious complexes during the Reformation, and the expansion of convents during the Counter-Reformation. Other chapters focus on slow transformations that are visible on neighbourhood and plot level. 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 working of the real estate market had different outcomes for different social groups and determined the evolution of neighbourhoods. Although this volume focuses on pre-modern towns, the analyses of past processes offer important insights to evaluate urban planning today and its possible effects in the future.
- Edited by Jaap Evert Abrahamse
- Edited by Heidi Deneweth
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Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional Perspective
The Low Countries and Neighbouring German Territories (14th-17th centuries)
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Innovation and Medieval Communities
The Circulation of Ideas and Practices in and out of the Town (1200-1500)
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Les identites urbaines au Moyen Age. Regards sur les villes du Midi francais
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Sociabilite urbaine et criminalisation etatique
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Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels
Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries)
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Moving Pictures. Intra-European Trade in Images, 16th-18th Centuries
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Governments of the Universitates
Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Volume 21
Earning Dignity
Labour Conditions and Relations during the Century of the Black Death in Marseille
Volume 38
Des villes en revolte
Les republiques urbaines aux Pays-Bas et en France pendant la deuxieme moitie du XVIe siecle
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Urban Hierarchy
The Interaction between Towns and Cities in Europe in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times
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Gouverner la ville au bas Moyen Age
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La Justice dans une ville du Nord du Royaume de France au Moyen Age
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Councils, Conflicts, Correspondence
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