Cities & the Sea Port City Planning in Early Modern Europe
Originally published in 1978. Josef Konvitz provides a broad comparative study of European port cities since the Renaissance by examining how they were built and rebuilt in the context of urban industrialization. Konvitz argues that as seafaring became more critical to Western civilization, intellec...
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Table of Contents:
- The Origins and Practice of Port City Planning
- The 16th Century Background
- Seaworthy Cities: Planning in the Expanding European World of the 17th Century
- The New Port Cities of France, 1660-1720
- The Search for New Port Cities in France
- The Government Proceeds to Plan
- Civic Order and Patterns of Growth in the New Cities
- The Decline of Port City Planning
- Port City Planning after the 17th Century.
