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A modern history of European cities : 1815 to the present / Rosemary Wakeman.
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Wakeman, Rosemary
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English
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London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
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x, 382 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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HT131 .W35 2020
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Cities and towns
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Europe
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City planning
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Europe
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Summary note
Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey to cities and towns across the continent, in search of the patterns of development that have shaped the urban landscape as indelibly European. The focus is on the built environment, the social and cultural transformations that mark the patterns of continuity and change, and the transition to modern urban society. Including over 60 images that serve to illuminate the analysis, the book examines whether there is a European city, and if so, what are its characteristics? Wakeman offers an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates concepts from cultural and postcolonial studies, as well as urban geography, and provides full coverage of urban society not only in western Europe, but also in eastern and southern Europe, using various cities and city types to inform the discussion. The book provides detailed coverage of the often-neglected urbanization post-1945 which allows us to more clearly understand the modernizing arc Europe has followed over the last two centuries. -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Grand Tour of Urban Europe (1815)
Travels through Industrial Landscapes
Entertainments and Romantic Dreamscapes (1815-48)
Roaming the Markets
Urban Reform and the Planned City
Wandering City Streets
Sightseeing in the Big City (Fin-de-Siecle)
Electric Cities and Avant-Garde Itineraries (1920s-30s)
Modernism and the City
Searching through the Rubble (1939-S0s)
Car Trips through the City (1960s-70s)
Crossing Urban Boundaries after the Berlin Wall.
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ISBN
9781350017665 (hardback)
1350017663 (hardback)
9781350017658 (paperback)
1350017655 (paperback)
OCLC
1127066026
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