European cities in the modern era, 1850/1914 / by Friedrich Lenger ; translated by Joel Golb.

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In European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Friedrich Lenger offers the first truly European account of Europe's major cities in a period crucial for the development of much of their present shape and infrastructure.

European Cities in the Modern Era,1850-1914; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Capitals of the Nineteenth Century; 1. London at the Time of the Great Exhibition of 1851; 2. The Rebuilding of Paris under Haussmann; 3. Paris at the Time of the International Exposition of 1867; II. The Urbanization of Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and its Economic and Demographic Background; 1. Elements of Europe's Urbanization 1850-1914; 2. The Demographic Backdrop; 3. The Economic Sources of Urbanization

4. Urban Systems and City-Country RelationsIII. Migration, Urban Society, and Urban Space; 1. Migration and Urban Society; 2. Urban Societies and Urban Space: Fragmentation and Heterogeneity?; IV. Housing Conditions and Housing Reform; 1. Housing Conditions in European Cities during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- A Comparative Perspective; 2. Ideas and Initiatives for Reform; V. The Construction of the Modern City: Self-Government, Urban Infrastructure, and Planning in the Epoch of Municipal Socialism; 1. Structures of Communal Self-Governance in Europe, 1850-1914

2. The Modern City: Healthy and Stench-Free?3. The Modern City: Bright, Fast, and Well-Planned?; 4. The Modern City: Solicitous and Social?; 5. Municipal Socialism: Significance and Limits; VI. Culture, Communication, Critique; 1. Middle Class High Culture, Workers' Culture, Mass Culture; 2. Mass Media, Perceptions of the City, and the Critique of City Life; VII. The Struggle for Urban Space; 1. Men and Women, Above and Below, Day and Night; 2. Revolutions and Demonstrations, Pogroms and Terrorism; Bibliography; Index

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