A modern history of European cities : 1815 to the present / Rosemary Wakeman.

By: Wakeman, Rosemary [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: x, 382 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350017665 (hardback)Subject(s): Cities and towns -- Europe -- History | City planning -- Europe -- History | Architecture -- Europe -- HistoryLOC classification: HT131 .W35 2020
Contents:
1. The ground tour of urban Europe (1815).
2. Travels through industrial landscapes.
3. Entertainments and romantic dreamscapes (1815-48).
4. Roaming the markets.
5. Urban reform and the planned city.
6. Wandering city streets.
7. Sightseeing in the big city (fin-de siecle).
8. Electric cities and avant-garde itineraries (1920s-30s).
9. Modernism and the city.
10. Searching through thr rubble (1960s-70s).
11. Car trips through the city (1960s-70s).
12. Crossing urban boundaries after the Berlin Wall.
Subject: 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. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-history-of-european-cities-9781350017658/

Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-375) and index (pages 376-382).

1. The ground tour of urban Europe (1815).

2. Travels through industrial landscapes.

3. Entertainments and romantic dreamscapes (1815-48).

4. Roaming the markets.

5. Urban reform and the planned city.

6. Wandering city streets.

7. Sightseeing in the big city (fin-de siecle).

8. Electric cities and avant-garde itineraries (1920s-30s).

9. Modernism and the city.

10. Searching through thr rubble (1960s-70s).

11. Car trips through the city (1960s-70s).

12. Crossing urban boundaries after the Berlin Wall.

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.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-history-of-european-cities-9781350017658/