European Cities in the Modern Era 1850 1914 1st Edition by Friedrich Lenger, Joel Golb ISBN 978-9004233386 9004233385

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ISBN 10: 9004233385

ISBN 13: 978-9004233386

Author: Friedrich Lenger, Joel Golb
In European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Friedrich Lenger offers the first truely European account of Europe’s major cities in a period crucial for the development of much of their present shape and infrastructure.

Table of contents: 

I. Capitals of the Nineteenth Century

1. London at the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851

2. The Rebuilding of Paris under Haussmann

3. Paris at the time of the International Exposition of 1867

II. The Urbanization of Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and its Economic and Demographic Background
4. Elements of Europe‘s Urbanization 1850–1914
5. The Demographic Backdrop
6. The Economic Sources of Urbanization
7. Urban Systems and City-Country Relations

III. Migration, Urban Society, and Urban Space
8. Migration and Urban Society
9. Urban Societies and Urban Space: Fragmentation and Heterogeneity?

IV. Housing Conditions and Housing Reform
10. Housing Conditions in European Cities during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century – A Comparative Perspective
11. Ideas and Initiatives for Reform

V. The Construction of the Modern City: Self-Government, Urban Infrastructure, and Planning in the Epoch of Municipal Socialism
12. Structures of Communal Self-Governance in Europe, 1850–1914
13. The Modern City: Healthy and Stench-Free?
14. The Modern City: Bright, Fast, and Well-Planned?
15. The Modern City: Solicitous and Social?
16. Municipal Socialism: Significance and Limits

VI. Culture, Communication, Critique
17. Middle Class High Culture, Workers‘ Culture, Mass Culture
18. Mass Media, Perceptions of the City, and the Critique of City Life

VII. The Struggle for Urban Space
19. Men and Women, Above and Below, Day and Night
20. Revolutions and Demonstrations, Pogroms and Terrorism

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