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The Streets of Europe
- The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities
Engelsk Hardback
The Streets of Europe
- The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities
Engelsk Hardback

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Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and commuting framed daily life. At its heyday in the 1800s, the European street was the place where social worlds connected and collided. Brian Ladd recounts a rich social and cultural history of the European city street, tracing its transformation from a lively scene of trade and crowds into a thoroughfare for high-speed transportation. Looking closely at four major cities--London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna--Ladd uncovers both the joys and the struggles of a past world. The story takes us up to the twentieth century, when the life of the street was transformed as wealthier citizens withdrew from the crowds to seek refuge in suburbs and automobiles. As demographics and technologies changed, so did the structure of cities and the design of streets, significantly shifting our relationships to them. In today's world of high-speed transportation and impersonal marketplaces, Ladd leads us to consider how we might draw on our history to once again build streets that encourage us to linger. By unearthing the vivid descriptions recorded by amused and outraged contemporaries, Ladd reveals the changing nature of city life, showing why streets matter and how they can contribute to public life.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780226677941
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022667794X
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Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2020
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2020
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