Colonial Urbanism In The Age Of The Enlightenment
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Colonial Urbanism In The Age Of The Enlightenment
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Author : Claudia Murray
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2023-06-06
Colonial Urbanism In The Age Of The Enlightenment written by Claudia Murray and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with History categories.
This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire. It also shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers, and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buenos Aires’ property market. In a short period, from 1776 to 1810, the urban transformation of Buenos Aires helped increase the Crown’s revenues and considerably reduced contraband trade. Nevertheless, urban changes generated an internal struggle for power for the control of the city between the Spanish loyalist and the local wealthier Creoles. As this book concludes, for an empire such as the Spanish, which was built upon a network of cities, the Crown’s loss of the control of Buenos Aires’ urban space was a serious threat to its power that foreshadowed Argentina’s wars of independence.
Colonial Cities
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Author : R.J. Ross
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Colonial Cities written by R.J. Ross and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.
by ROBERT ROSS and GERARD J. TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. The Europeans who founded empires outside their own continent were primarily concerned with extracting those products which they could not acquire within Europe. These goods were largely agricultural, and grown most often in a climate not found within Europe. Even when, as in India before 1800, the major exports were manufactures, in general they were still made in the countryside rather than in the great cities. It was only on rare occasion when great mineral wealth was discovered that giant metropolises grew up around the site of extraction. Since their location was deter mined by geology, not economics, they might be in the most inaccessible and in convenient areas, but they too would draw labour off from the agricultural pursuits of the colony as a whole. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction. Nevertheless, the colonists could not do without cities. The requirements of colonisation demanded many unequivocally urban functions. Pre-eminent among these was of course the need for a port, to allow the export of colonial wares and the import of goods from Europe, or from other parts of the non-European world, in the country-trade as it was known around India.
Colonial Cities
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Author : Robert Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Colonial Cities written by Robert Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Cities and towns categories.
Urbanism Colonialism And The World Economy
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Author : Anthony D. King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-23
Urbanism Colonialism And The World Economy written by Anthony D. King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-23 with Colonial cities categories.
Recent years have witnessed a surge in public awareness concerning the impact of world economic forces on cities. In this challenging book, the author argues that though the consciousness is new the phenomena themselves are not. For the past two centuries at least, world economic, political and cultural forces have been major factors shaping cities, patterns of urbanization and the physical and spatial forms of the built environment. The book explores and documents the cultural and spatial links between metropolitan core and colonial periphery and examines the historical foundations of the world urban system. It also examines the social production of building and urban form, and demonstrates their potential for understanding economic, political, socail and cultural change on a global scale.
Scottish Town In The Age Of The Enlightenment 1740 1820
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Author : Bob Harris
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-31
Scottish Town In The Age Of The Enlightenment 1740 1820 written by Bob Harris and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-31 with Social Science categories.
This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellers' tales, plans and drawings relating to some 30 Scots burghs of the Georgian period. It establishes a distinctive a
Designing The Modern City
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Author : Eric Paul Mumford
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
Designing The Modern City written by Eric Paul Mumford and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Architecture categories.
A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present. Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, technical, social, and economic developments set cities and the world's population on a course of massive expansion. Mumford recounts how key figures in design responded to these changing circumstances with both practicable proposals and theoretical frameworks, ultimately creating what are now mainstream ideas about how urban environments should be designed, as well as creating the field called "urbanism." He then traces the complex outcomes of approaches that emerged in European, American, and Asian cities. This erudite and insightful book addresses the modernization of the traditional city, including mass transit and sanitary sewer systems, building legislation, and model tenement and regional planning approaches. It also examines the urban design concepts of groups such as CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and Team 10, and their adherents and critics, including those of the Congress for the New Urbanism, as well as efforts toward ecological urbanism. Highlighting built as well as unbuilt projects, Mumford offers a sweeping guide to the history of designers' efforts to shape cities.
French Colonial Urbanism
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Author : Preeti Chopra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
French Colonial Urbanism written by Preeti Chopra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.
Europe And The World 1650 1830
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Author : Professor Jeremy Black
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Europe And The World 1650 1830 written by Professor Jeremy Black and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with History categories.
Europe and the World, 1650-1830 is an important thematic study of the first age of globalisation. It surveys the interaction of Europe, Europe's growing colonies and other major global powers, such as the Ottoman Empire, China, India and Japan. Focusing on Europe's impact on the world, Jeremy Black analyses European attitudes, exploration, trade and acquisition of knowledge.
Imperial Conversations
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Author : Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai
language : en
Publisher: Yoda Press
Release Date : 2007
Imperial Conversations written by Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai and has been published by Yoda Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture categories.
The eighteenth century was a time of profound upheaval when economic and political control of southern India passed from native kings to the East India Company. Hand-in-hand with the resultant conflicts and skirmishes, a process of cultural sharing was gaining ground which went on to manifest itself in the form of a flourishing imperial cultural in the nineteenth century.
The Syntax Of City Space
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Author : Mark David Major
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-14
The Syntax Of City Space written by Mark David Major and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-14 with Architecture categories.
Many people see American cities as a radical departure in the history of town planning because of their planned nature based on the geometrical division of the land. However, other cities of the world also began as planned towns with geometric layouts so American cities are not unique. Why did the regular grid come to so pervasively characterize American urbanism? Are American cities really so different? The Syntax of City Space: American Urban Grids by Mark David Major with Foreword by Ruth Conroy Dalton (co-editor of Take One Building) answers these questions and much more by exploring the urban morphology of American cities. It argues American cities do represent a radical departure in the history of town planning while, simultaneously, still being subject to the same processes linking the street network and function found in other types of cities around the world. A historical preference for regularity in town planning had a profound influence on American urbanism, which endures to this day.