Title:
The European city / Leonardo Benevolo ; translated from the Italian by Carl Ipsen.
The Making of Europe
Making of Europe.
Main Entry:
Benevolo, Leonardo. Author.
Ipsen, Carl. translator.
Publisher:
Blackwell,
Publication Date:
1993.
Publication Place:
Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA :
ISBN:
0631198938
9780631198932
Subject:
Cities and towns -- Europe -- History.
Series:
The Making of Europe
Making of Europe.
Contents:
1. Emergence from the Ancient World -- The Idea of the City in the Classical Tradition -- Urban Transformation of the Late Empire -- The Crisis of the Cities after the Fall of the Western Empire -- The Emerging Characteristics of the Western Urban System -- 2. The Creation of a New Urban System -- The Italian Maritime Cities -- Cities in Other Parts of Europe -- Colonization and the New Cities -- The Medieval Urban Heritage -- 3. The Perfecting of the Urban Environment -- Stabilization and the Last Urban Expansions of the Fourteenth Century -- Representation of the Stabilized City -- The New Artistic Culture -- The Renewal of Urban Planning in Italy -- The Separation of Theory and Practice -- 4. Confrontation with the World -- The European Resources Employed Overseas -- The Colonization of Asia and Africa -- The Colonization of the New World -- 5. The Difficult Adjustment to the Laws of Perspective -- The New Conditions for Urban Planning -- The City in Perspective: Urban Transformation between 1550 and 1650 -- The City in Perspective: Urban Transformation from 1650 to 1750 -- Departure from Perspective: The English Experience -- 6. The Industrial City -- Urban Revolution -- Haussmannization: The Post-Liberal City and its Problems -- 7. Europe in the Contemporary World -- Cities of the Europeanized World -- The Invention of a New City -- The Renewal of the European City in the Past Fifty Years -- Reflections on the Future.
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