Böcker i Historical Urban Studies Series-serien

Topics covered by the essays in this volume include: a metabolic approach to the city; the struggle for urban space; and noise abatement and the search for quiet space in the modern city.

Argues that municipal museums had a further, social role. In a situation of rapid urban growth, allied to social and cultural changes on a scale hitherto unknown, it was inevitable that traditional class and social hierarchies would come under enormous pressure.

This collection of articles represents a range of approaches to and perspectives on the ownership, use and transmission of property in 18th and 19th-century towns. An introductory essay highlights the importance of property and inheritance in shaping social, cultural-economic and structures.

Drawing on a broad selection of methods, disciplines and case studies this volume investigates the interactions between youth and authority, and show how these adapted and changed over time and in different countries. By taking a fresh look, this volume furthers out understanding of modern European socitety in the 20th century.

A set of essays around the theme of governance addressing a wide range of questions on the ordering or order and the organization and legitimation of authority. The historical dynamic follows the change from the 17th- and 18th-century chartered governments to representative regimes.

Artisans played a central role in the European town as it developed from the Middles Ages onwards. Their workshops were at the heart of productive activity, their guilds were often central to the political and legal order of towns, and their culture helped shape civic ritual and the urban order.

There is a widespread concern today with the role and experiences of ethnic and religious minorities, and their potential for conflict and harmony with ''host communities'' and with each other, especially in towns. Interest in historical aspects of these phenomena is growing rapidly, not least in studies of the long and complex history of the towns of Central and Eastern Europe. Most such studies focus on particular places or on particular groups, but this volume offers a broader view covering the period from the tenth to the sixteenth century and regions from Germany to Dalmatia and from Epirus to Livonia, with an emphasis on the territory of medieval Hungary. The focus is on the changing nature of identity, perception and legal status of groups, on relations within and between them, and on the ways in which these elements were affected by the external political regimes and ideologies to which the towns were subjected. Many of the places examined were notable for the complexity of their ethnic and religious composition, and for their exposure to a wide range of external influences, including long-distance trade and tensions between settled and semi-nomadic ways of life. Overall the volume illustrates the variety of ways in which minorities found a place in towns - as citizens, outsiders, or in some other role - and how that could vary according to local circumstances and over time. Dealing with the formative period for modern European towns, this volume not only reveals much about medieval society and urban history, but poses questions still relevant today.

This work investigates the effect of merchants and traders on the urban history of market places in early modern commercial European cities. It looks at how the transformations of designated commercial areas modified relationships throughout the entire urban context.

The question of who actually ran cities in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries has been debated by urban historians. This volume offers an examination of the relationship between elite and "power" in cities; bringing together the economic, social and cultural history of elite and the political history of power resources and decision-making.

A collection of essays focusing on the artisanal presence and the artisanal experience in Europe between the beginning of the early modern period and the end of the 19th century. Topics range from the fate of guilds during the French Revolution to the presence and problems of women artisans.

This book explores the multiplicity of green space developments in the modern city and the many influences shaping their evolution. Focusing on four northern European metropoles: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, it examines how each has responded to the challenges and problems presented by green space, and what lessons can be drawn from the differing approaches taken.

Illustrates the variety of ways in which minorities found a place in towns - as citizens, outsiders, or in some other role - and how that could vary according to local circumstances or over time. This book discusses questions of identity, perception, legal status and relations between groups.

Explores the multiplicity of green space developments in the modern city, ranging over parks and commons, garden suburbs and allotment gardens, green belts and national urban parks. This book is concerned about the influences shaping the green space's evolution, from international planning ideas to the effects of the transport revolution.

Discusses the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Based on a range of archival sources, this book offers the a systematic analytical account of historical change in a colonial city.

The issue of ethical standards in public life has become a central concern in contemporary public discourse. This volume considers how ethical debates arise as a result of differential access to positions of authority and from competition for public resources. It also provides an analysis of the phenomenon of corruption.

How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume examines these questions in the context of European urban culture, exploring the institutions and ideologies relating to the range of sensual experience and its interpretation.

A survey of research in the cultural history of urban public health, this study links the approaches of demographic and medical history with the methodologies of urban history and historical geography. It challenges older methodologies, offering insights into the significance of cultural history.

Based on a wide variety of government and civic records, this book traces the changing nature of city status, particularly through the 19th and 20th centuries. Beginning with an explaination of how city status first became connected the book explores how links have evolved between Aglican sub-divisions and city creation.

Examines the construction of civil society from associational activity in the urban place. This volume reflects on the construction of class, nation and culture in the associations of the nineteenth-century urban place. It shows that a deep and interlocking civil society does not automatically lead to a rise in democratic activity.