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

• Author: Lenger, Friedrich.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Central European Histories 57.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Friedrich Lenger analyses the demographic and economic preconditions of European urbanization, compares the extent to which Europe’s cities were characterized by heterogeneity with respect to the social, national and religious composition of its population and asks in which way differences resulting from this heterogeneity were resolved either peacefully or violently. Using this general perspective and extending the scope by including Eastern and Southern Europe the dominant view of Europe’s prewar cities as islands of modernity is challenged and the ubiquity of urban violence established as a central analytical problem.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Capitals of the Nineteenth Century -- The Urbanization of Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and its Economic and Demographic Background -- Migration, Urban Society, and Urban Space -- Housing Conditions and Housing Reform -- The Construction of the Modern City: Self-Government, Urban Infrastructure, and Planning in the Epoch of Municipal Socialism -- Culture, Communication, Critique -- The Struggle for Urban Space -- Bibliography -- Index.