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The Market and the City - Square, Street and Architecture in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
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The Market and the City - Square, Street and Architecture in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
Series: Historical Urban Studies Series
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The early modern period is often characterised as a time that
witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across
Europe. From Italy and Spain in the south, to the Low Countries and
England in the north, men of business and trade came to play an
increasingly pivotal role in the culture, politics and economies of
western Europe. This book takes a comparative approach to the
effect such merchants and traders had on the urban history of
market places - streets, squares and civic buildings - in some of
the great commercial European cities between the fifteenth and
seventeenth centuries. It looks at how this in period, the
transformations of designated commercial areas were important
enough to modify relationships throughout the entire urban context.
Market places tend to be very ancient, continuing to function for
centuries on the same location; but between the middle of the
fourteenth and the first decades of the seventeenth, their
structures began to change as new regulations and patterns of
manufacture, distribution and consumption began to install a new
uniformity and geometry on the market place. During the period
covered by this study, most major European cities undertook the
rebuilding of entire zones, constructing new buildings, demolishing
existing structures and embellishing others. This book analyses the
intentions of innovation, in parallel with sanitary and hygienic
reasons, the juridical regulations of the architecture of certain
building types and the urban strategies as efficient tools to
better control the economic activities within the city.
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