European cities in the modern era, 1850/1914 [[electronic resource] /] / by Friedrich Lenger ; translated by Joel Golb

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820891203321
• Autore: Lenger Friedrich
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-57908-1; 9786613891532; 90-04-23363-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Collana: Studies in central European histories, , 1547-1217 ; ; v. 57
• Disciplina: 307.76094
• Soggetti: Cities and towns - Europe - 19th century; City planning - Social aspects - Europe - 19th century; Urban policy - Europe - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Capitals of the Nineteenth Century -- The Urbanization of Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and its Economic and Demographic Background -- Migration, Urban Society, and Urban Space -- Housing Conditions and Housing Reform -- The Construction of the Modern City: Self-Government, Urban Infrastructure, and Planning in the Epoch of Municipal Socialism -- Culture, Communication, Critique -- The Struggle for Urban Space -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Friedrich Lenger analyses the demographic and economic preconditions of European urbanization, compares the extent to which Europe’s cities were characterized by heterogeneity with respect to the social, national and religious composition of its population and asks in which way differences resulting from this heterogeneity were resolved either peacefully or violently. Using this general perspective and extending the scope by including Eastern and Southern Europe the dominant view of Europe’s prewar cities as islands of modernity is challenged and the ubiquity of urban violence established as a central analytical problem.