The Streets of Europe : The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Form and Use of City Streets -- 1. Streets in History -- 2. Wheeling and Dealing: The Street Economy -- 3. Strolling, Mingling, and Lingering: Social Life on the Street -- 4. Out of the Muck: The Sanitary City -- 5. Transportation: The Acceleration of the Stree...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
2020
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| Schlagworte: | Streets Streets-History-France-Paris Streets-History-Germany-Berlin Sociology, Urban Streets-History-England-London Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (314 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Form and Use of City Streets -- 1. Streets in History -- 2. Wheeling and Dealing: The Street Economy -- 3. Strolling, Mingling, and Lingering: Social Life on the Street -- 4. Out of the Muck: The Sanitary City -- 5. Transportation: The Acceleration of the Street -- 6. Public Order and Public Space: Control and Design -- Conclusion: Looking Down on the Street -- Notes -- Index. "Street Life tells the history of the city street as a vanished world that many people yearn for but that few understand in its complexity. Ladd's journey centers on four major cities: London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. He focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth and his story of the rich culture of the street ends with the arrival of the automobile - the street increasingly became equated not with commerce or entertainment or assembly but with rapid transportation. As Ladd ably weaves architectural and social history he includes sights, smells, and sounds-chapters on transportation and sanitation provide the less dazzling side of these sensations. Street performers, urban activity, street commerce, and public order are all part of the vivid history. In a conclusion, Ladd ponders the move off the streets, before and after 1900 and how our thinking about streets and cities has changed and how it might change more"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (314 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780226678139 022667813X 9780226677941 022667794X |