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Transforming Cities, Negotiating Centrality: Markets and Civic Buildings in Comparative Perspective (XVth c. - XXth c.); An Introduction
Städte umgestalten, Zentralität aushandeln: Märkte und öffentliche Gebäude in vergleichender Perspektive (15.-20. Jh.); Eine Einführung
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Abstract This HSR forum on central urban places in history discusses the spatial interactions between political and commercial centres. The narrative of western modernity we challenge here explains the increasing distance between prestigious political monuments and daily markets with the breakthroughs in hyg... view more
This HSR forum on central urban places in history discusses the spatial interactions between political and commercial centres. The narrative of western modernity we challenge here explains the increasing distance between prestigious political monuments and daily markets with the breakthroughs in hygiene of the last two centuries in western urbanism. On the one hand, the example of Venice shows that the hygiene politics of the 19th century were not that new and that they could also be used for a kind of social segregation. On the other hand, the model of the occidental city as political community and municipal institution must be questioned. For instance, Ottoman towns had developed institutions that represented local groups and which were linked with the markets and their actors. Western influence and colonisation destroyed those institutions, which also had consequences for the city centre. We propose the concept of vertical and horizontal centrality for use in discussions of the multiple dimensions of centrality.... view less
Keywords
urban development; historical development; Europe; Middle East; municipal administration; governance; public space; center-periphery; modernization; transformation; fifteenth century; sixteenth century; seventeenth century; eighteenth century; nineteenth century; twentieth century
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
Urban history; Maghreb; markets; municipal government; centrality; civic buildings; cities; urban centres; Venice; Milan; Poznań; Gniezno; Kalisz; Coimbra; Kasbah; Tunis; comparative perspective
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 167-185
Journal
Historical Social Research, 47 (2022) 2
Issue topic
Transforming Cities, Negotiating Centrality: Markets and Civic Buildings in Comparative Perspective (XVth c. - XXth c.) (Forum)
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed