Micro-Geographies of the Western City, C.1750-1900

ISBN-13: 9780367350307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 248 str.

Alida Clemente; Dag Linstrom; Jon Stobart

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This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern western cities to explore the small-scale processes that have shaped these cities between c.1750-1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter, framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes.

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1. Introduction Part 1: Houses and Households: Spaces, Practices, and Representations 2. Toronto’s Early Apartment Houses: A Micro-Geography 3. The Brilliant Idea of the Book-Keeper Johan Peter Frisk: A Micro-Historical Study 4. The Shop and the Home: Commercial and Domestic Space in 18th-Century England 5. Representing a Disreputable House Part 2: Streets and Pavements: Sociability, Improvement, and Conflict 6. Sidewalks and Alignment of the Streets: The Gap between Large-Scale Planning and the Building-Scale in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Brussels-Paris) 7. Liberalism Underfoot: A Micro-Geography of Street Paving and Social Dissolution – Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, 1898–99 8. Policing Stockholm’s Filth: Flows to Fixedness, 1776–1836 9. Representing the ‘Other’ Berlin, c. 1900: Micro-geographies of the Proletarian City Part 3: Neighbourhoods: Networks, Spaces, and Identities 10. Public Houses and Hidden Networks: Roles of Women in Mid-19th-Century Montreal 11. The Micro-Geography of Political Meeting Places in Manchester and Sheffield c.1780-1850 12. Trouble at the Edge of Town: Policing Montreal’s Urban Periphery in the Middle of the 19th Century 13. Conclusions