Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500
In: Routledge Library Editions: Urban History v.7
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- The Contributors -- Foreword: Patterns of urban growth since1500, mainly in Western Europe -- 1. Urbanization. What's in a name? -- 2. Urbanisation and economic development in the western world: some provisional conclusions of an empirical study -- 3. Patterns of urbanization in pre-industrial Europe, 1500-1800 -- 4. The impact of functional differentiation within systems of industrialised cities -- 5. Some examples of analyzing the process of urbanization: Northern Italy (eighteenth to twentieth century) -- 6. The influence of industrialization on urban growth in Prussia (1815-1914) -- 7. Urbanisation in Sweden, 1840-1920 -- 8. The rise of the 'Randstad', 1815-1930 -- 9. The population growth of the urban municipalities in the Netherlands between 1849 and 1970, with particular reference to the period 1899-1930 -- 10. Epilogue: one subject, many views