The Streets of Europe - The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities
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The Streets of Europe - The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities
epub | 7.91 MB | English | Isbn:978-0226677941 |
Author: Brian Ladd | PAge: 320 | Year: 2020
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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...
Category:Sociology, Sociology of Urban Areas, European History
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