Cities & the Sea Port City Planning in Early Modern Europe

Originally published in 1978. Josef Konvitz provides a broad comparative study of European port cities since the Renaissance by examining how they were built and rebuilt in the context of urban industrialization. Konvitz argues that as seafaring became more critical to Western civilization, intellec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Konvitz, Josef W. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Sumario:Originally published in 1978. Josef Konvitz provides a broad comparative study of European port cities since the Renaissance by examining how they were built and rebuilt in the context of urban industrialization. Konvitz argues that as seafaring became more critical to Western civilization, intellectuals and rulers placed more importance on urban planning. Planning looked different, of course, in various European cities. In Paris, riverside planning was patched into the existing frame of the city, whereas Scandinavian towns on the Baltic were over-designed to accommodate a degree of maritime trade unsustainable for cities writ large. In the eighteenth century, city planning fell out of vogue, and new solutions were introduced to help solve the problems created by urban development. With a series of helpful maps, Konvitz's book is an important source for urban historians of early modern Europe.
Notas:Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License
Originally published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1978
Descripción Física:1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 235 pages :) illustrations)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.