Small Towns In Europe In The 20th And 21st Centuries

Author : Luďa Klusáková et al.
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788024636450

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Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries by Luďa Klusáková et al. Pdf

Largely unknown small towns, always in the shadow of famous cities, are mostly overlooked by historical research. English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Czech and Russian towns are staged in this volume as examples of a typical European phenomenon. They appear in diverse shapes, influenced by their countries and regions in history. One of possible strategies to overcome difficulties and motivate new development uses cultural heritage as a marketable value. International team of urban historians, sociologists and historians of arts and architects joined at the European Association for Urban History conference in Lisbon in 2014 and decided to present the issue in this volume – composed of five chapters – using a variety of methods and perspectives.

Author : Lud'a Klusakova Klusakova (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8024642131

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Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries by Lud'a Klusakova Klusakova (author) Pdf

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521893747

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Small Towns in Early Modern Europe by Peter Clark Pdf

The first major work in English to give a pan-European perspective on the changing role of small towns from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

Author : Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350017689

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A Modern History of European Cities by Rosemary Wakeman Pdf

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.

Author : Eva Semotanová,Pavel Chromý,Zdeněk Kučera
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643910592

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Historical Geography in Czechia: Themes and Concepts by Eva Semotanová,Pavel Chromý,Zdeněk Kučera Pdf

Although the content of historical geography may be viewed from different perspectives, there is no doubt that historical geography has interdisciplinary character. The publication represents an outcome of cooperation among geographers and historians within the Historical Geography Research Centre that continues more than forty years old tradition of common researches in Czechia. Beside discussing the disciplinary origins, the most vital research topics of present Czech historical geography are reflected in its contents - transformations of landscapes, historical towns, and of regions.

Author : Angela Bartie,Linda Fleming,Mark Freeman,Alexander Hutton,Paul Readman
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787354050

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Restaging the Past by Angela Bartie,Linda Fleming,Mark Freeman,Alexander Hutton,Paul Readman Pdf

Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present day. Across Britain in the twentieth century, people succumbed to ‘pageant fever’. Thousands dressed up in historical costumes and performed scenes from the history of the places where they lived, and hundreds of thousands more watched them. These pageants were one of the most significant aspects of popular engagement with the past between the 1900s and the 1970s: they took place in large cities, small towns and tiny villages, and engaged a whole range of different organised groups, including Women’s Institutes, political parties, schools, churches and youth organisations. Pageants were community events, bringing large numbers of people together in a shared celebration and performance of the past; they also involved many prominent novelists, professional historians and other writers, as well as featuring repeatedly in popular and highbrow literature. Although the pageant tradition has largely died out, it deserves to be acknowledged as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change. Indeed, as this book shows, some traces of ‘pageant fever’ remain in evidence today.

Author : Lucia Della Spina,Francesco Calabrò
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039363049

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Enhancement of Public Real-estate Assets and Cultural Heritage by Lucia Della Spina,Francesco Calabrò Pdf

The management of cultural heritage and public real-estate assets is one of the most crucial challenges concerning the sustainable use of these resources, involving dynamic methods to stimulate preservation, development, renewal, and transmission to future generations of these essential assets. The contributions presented in this book provide a rich and varied panorama of research experiences and innovative tools, capable of promoting the re-use of cultural heritage in European cities and cultural landscapes, using a circular economy logic as a model of sustainable development. From this point of view, cultural capital becomes the driver of a regeneration process on the local, urban, and metropolitan scales, in which the transversal interconnections between the production cycles of the adaptive re-use of the available heritage, both in the adaptation and in the management phase, configure a circular process of multidimensional production of value. Therefore, future territorial redevelopment projects can base their idea strength on an open system of appropriately selected social attractors, whose enhancement and use have the objective of triggering widespread regeneration effects on the whole territory of influence, receiving inducement and resources to progress.

Author : John R. Gold,Margaret M. Gold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000318920

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Festival Cities by John R. Gold,Margaret M. Gold Pdf

Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered peripheral to the course of urban affairs. Now they have become central to new ways of thinking about the challenges of economic and social change, as well as repositioning cities within competitive global networks. In this timely and thought-provoking book, John and Margaret Gold provide a reflective and evidence-based historical survey of the processes and actors involved, charting the ways that regular festivals have now become embedded in urban life and city planning. Beginning with David Garrick’s rain-drenched Shakespearean Jubilee and ending with Sydney’s flamboyant Mardi Gras celebrations, it encompasses the emergence and consolidation of city festivals. After a contextual historical survey that stretches from Antiquity to the late nineteenth century, there are detailed case studies of pioneering European arts festivals in their urban context: Venice’s Biennale, the Salzburg Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and Edinburgh’s International Festival. Ensuing chapters deal with the worldwide proliferation of arts festivals after 1950 and with the ever-increasing diversifycation of carnival celebrations, particularly through the actions of groups seeking to assert their identity. The conclusion draws together the book’s key themes and sketches the future prospects for festival cities. Lavishly illustrated, and copiously researched, this book is essential reading not just for urban geographers, social historians and planners, but also for anyone interested in contemporary festival and events tourism, urban events strategy, urban regeneration regeneration, or simply building a fuller understanding of the relationship between culture, planning and the city.

Author : Joseph P. Stoltman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781412974646

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21st Century Geography by Joseph P. Stoltman Pdf

This is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Author : Jerzy Bański
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000421637

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The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns by Jerzy Bański Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns addresses the theoretical, methodical, and practical issues related to the development of small towns and neighbouring countryside. Small towns play a very important role in spatial structure by performing numerous significant developmental functions for rural areas. At the local scale, they act as engines for economic growth of rural regions and as a link in the system of connections between large urban centres and the countryside. The book addresses the role of small towns in the local development of regions in countries with different levels of development and economic systems, including those in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia, and Australia. Chapters address the functional structure of small towns, relations between small towns and rural areas, and the challenges of spatial planning in the context of shaping the development of small towns. Students and scholars of urban planning, urban geography, rural geography, political geography, historical geography, and population geography will learn about the role of small towns in the local development of countries representing different economic systems and developmental conditions.

Author : Kathleen Comerford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047410843

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Reforming Priests and Parishes by Kathleen Comerford Pdf

A study of diocesan seminaries in Arezzo, Siena, Volterra and Lucca, from 1563-1660s, this book considers financial, educational, and religious perspectives. Florence, Montepulciano, Pienza, and Pisa provide context. Most have never been treated in English, and no comparative study exists.

Author : Simon Gunn,Susan C. Townsend
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350075948

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Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan by Simon Gunn,Susan C. Townsend Pdf

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the similarities and differences between Japan and Britain in adapting to the 'motor age'. The book has three main themes: the place of automobility in post-war urban reconstruction; the emerging conflict between the promise of mobility and personal freedom offered by the car and its consequences for the urban environment (the M/E dilemma); and the extent to which the Anglo-Japanese comparison can throw light on fundamental differences in cultural understanding of the environment, urbanism and the self. The result is the first comparative history of mass automobility and its environmental consequences between East and West.

Author : Oriol Nel-lo,Renata Mele
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317312437

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Cities in the 21st Century by Oriol Nel-lo,Renata Mele Pdf

Cities in the 21st Century provides an overview of contemporary urban development. Written by more than thirty major academic specialists from different countries, it provides information on and analysis of the global network of cities, changes in urban form, environmental problems, the role of technologies and knowledge, socioeconomic developments, and finally, the challenge of urban governance. In the mid-20th century, architect and planner Josep Lluís Sert wondered if cities could survive; in the early 21st century, we see that cities have not only survived but have grown as never before. Cities today are engines of production and trade, forges of scientific and technological innovation, and crucibles of social change. Urbanization is a major driver of change in contemporary societies; it is a process that involves acute social inequalities and serious environmental problems, but also offers opportunities to move towards a future of greater prosperity, environmental sustainability, and social justice. With case studies on thirty cities in five continents and a selection of infographics illustrating these dynamic cities, this edited volume is an essential resource for planners and students of urbanization and urban change.

Author : Thomas Perrin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000599824

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Regions and Regional Planning by Thomas Perrin Pdf

This book addresses the making and transforming of regions and territorial organisation, which are significant activities for policy makers and planners. It focuses on the regional, intermediate scale and gathers contributions by researchers from various European universities, especially at a time when there is a renewed interest for regions, regionalisation and regional planning. The different chapters in this edited volume deliver insightful theoretical approaches and documented empirical case studies. The recent reform that redrew and reorganized regions in France is of particular interest. Other contributions enrich the reflection about territorial reforms and changes by analysing situations in Italy, Poland, United Kingdom – notably the issue of planning city-regions or metropolitan areas. This volume provides a comparative view of the impact of territorial reforms on planning policies and explores the evolution of regional settings in Europe. It also confirms region as a fundamental scale and an essential instrument to organise and develop societies and territories. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal European Planning Studies.

Author : Ewa Morawska
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0691005370

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Insecure Prosperity - Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940 by Ewa Morawska Pdf

This captivating story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. Although four-fifths of Jewish immigrants did settle in major cities, another fifth created small-town communities like the one described here by Ewa Morawska. Rather than climbing up the mainstream education and occupational success ladder, the Jewish Johnstowners created in the local economy a tightly knit ethnic entrepreneurial niche and pursued within it their main life goals: achieving a satisfactory standard of living against the recurrent slumps in local mills and coal mines and enjoying the company of their fellow congregants. Rather than secularizing and diversifying their communal life, as did Jewish immigrants to larger cities, they devoted their energies to creating and maintaining an inclusive, multipurpose religious congregation. Morawska begins with an extensive examination of Jewish life in the Eastern European regions from which most of Johnstown's immigrants came, tracing features of culture and social relations that they brought with them to America. After detailing the process by which migration from Eastern Europe occurred, Morawska takes up the social organization of Johnstown, the place of Jews in that social order, the transformation of Jewish social life in the city, and relations between Jews and non-Jews. The resulting work will appeal simultaneously to students of American history, of American social life, of immigration, and of Jewish experience, as well as to the general reader interested in any of these topics.