Cities & the Sea

Originally published in 1978. Josef Konvitz provides a broad comparative study of European port cities since the Renaissance by examining how they were built and rebuilt in the context of urban industrialization. Konvitz argues that as seafaring became more critical to Western civilization, intellec...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Konvitz, Josef W.
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منشور في: Johns Hopkins University Press 2022
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description Originally published in 1978. Josef Konvitz provides a broad comparative study of European port cities since the Renaissance by examining how they were built and rebuilt in the context of urban industrialization. Konvitz argues that as seafaring became more critical to Western civilization, intellectuals and rulers placed more importance on urban planning. Planning looked different, of course, in various European cities. In Paris, riverside planning was patched into the existing frame of the city, whereas Scandinavian towns on the Baltic were over-designed to accommodate a degree of maritime trade unsustainable for cities writ large. In the eighteenth century, city planning fell out of vogue, and new solutions were introduced to help solve the problems created by urban development. With a series of helpful maps, Konvitz's book is an important source for urban historians of early modern Europe.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-889322024-04-02T13:59:22Z Cities & the Sea Konvitz, Josef W. European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history Originally published in 1978. Josef Konvitz provides a broad comparative study of European port cities since the Renaissance by examining how they were built and rebuilt in the context of urban industrialization. Konvitz argues that as seafaring became more critical to Western civilization, intellectuals and rulers placed more importance on urban planning. Planning looked different, of course, in various European cities. In Paris, riverside planning was patched into the existing frame of the city, whereas Scandinavian towns on the Baltic were over-designed to accommodate a degree of maritime trade unsustainable for cities writ large. In the eighteenth century, city planning fell out of vogue, and new solutions were introduced to help solve the problems created by urban development. With a series of helpful maps, Konvitz's book is an important source for urban historians of early modern Europe. 2022-07-15T15:16:39Z 2022-07-15T15:16:39Z 1978 book ONIX_20220715_9781421434629_679 9781421434629 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88932 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://muse.jhu.edu/book/71826 Johns Hopkins University Press 10.1353/book.71826 10.1353/book.71826 1f9b1002-ec35-4fcf-94be-32cfd0a1dfd3 9781421434629 open access
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