The streets of Europe : the sights, sounds, and smells that shaped its great cities / Brian Ladd.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020Description: 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226677941
- 022667794X $q (hardcover ;
- Streets -- England -- London -- History
- Streets -- France -- Paris -- History
- Streets -- Germany -- Berlin -- History
- Streets -- Austria -- Vienna -- History
- Streets -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
- Sociology, Urban -- Europe -- History
- Fellow
- Berlin Prize Fellow
- Class of Fall 1998
- Class of Spring 1999
- 307.76094 23
- HT153 .L265 2020
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | F (Affiliated) | F:HT153 .L265 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Hardcover | 2023-7431 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-293) and index.
Introduction: The form and use of city streets -- Streets in history -- Wheeling and dealing: the street economy -- Strolling, mingling, and lingering: social life on the street -- Out of the muck: the sanitary city -- Transportation: the acceleration of the street -- Public order and public space: control and design -- Conclusion: looking down on the street.
"Street Life tells the history of the city street as a vanished world that many people yearn for but that few understand in its complexity. Ladd's journey centers on four major cities: London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. He focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth and his story of the rich culture of the street ends with the arrival of the automobile - the street increasingly became equated not with commerce or entertainment or assembly but with rapid transportation. As Ladd ably weaves architectural and social history he includes sights, smells, and sounds-chapters on transportation and sanitation provide the less dazzling side of these sensations. Street performers, urban activity, street commerce, and public order are all part of the vivid history. In a conclusion, Ladd ponders the move off the streets, before and after 1900 and how our thinking about streets and cities has changed and how it might change more"-- Provided by publisher.
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