The Pre-Industrial Urban System: France 1740-1840

ISBN-13: 9780521417341 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 504 str.

Bernard Lepetit; Peter Clark; David Reeder

Opis

Highly acclaimed in the original French edition, this landmark urban study of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries appears here for the first time in English. It provides one of the first synoptic views of the evolution of the French urban system before the Industrial Revolution by examining not only the major cities but the wider urban hierarchy. The innovations of this study lie in Lepetit's use of models of urban interaction and the unraveling of the complex spatial dimensions to urbanization.

Recenzje

"Lepetit makes good observations of the links between politics, administration, and public finance." The Journal of Urban Technology

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The urbanisation of France; 2. Urban images; 3. The town, the economy, the territory; 4. An essay in urban typology; 5. Hierarchical gradations; 6. The new geography of power; 7. The France of the chefs-lieux; 8. Towns and roads; 9. Urban systems: from frameworks to networks; 10. Back to representations; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.