Cities and Networks in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities and Networks in Europe write by Cattan Nadine. This book was released on 2007-06-01. Cities and Networks in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this book is to look at the dominant representations that at present underpin the issues of territorial organisation and planning in Europe. Cities and networks are often envisaged as inevitably driving territorial development. However, the conceptualisation of European territorial integration has often been reduced to two conventional models: the centre-periphery model and the hierarchical model of urban networks. Limiting territorial integration to these two schema means that integration is limited. Today, reference to polycentric territorial development has to some extent changed the picture. Rather than being viewed in a polarised, pyramidal manner, spatial dynamics are being read in terms of interconnection and reticulation. In addition, reflection on the subject of polycentric territorial strategies has encouraged politicians and spatial planners to include the principle of “territorial cohesion” in the priorities of European public policies. From considerations which associate conceptual approaches and analytical studies, this book makes it possible to understand in what manner polycentrism, viewed as an alternative to metropolisation, could sow the seeds for new readings, at various scales, of the organisation of European territory.
Commercial Networks and European Cities, 1400–1800
Commercial Networks and European Cities, 1400–1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commercial Networks and European Cities, 1400–1800 write by Andrea Caracausi. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Commercial Networks and European Cities, 1400–1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Merchant networks generated trade and the exchange of goods between the cities of early modern Europe. This collection of essays analyses these commercial networks, focusing on the roles of kinship, origin, religion and business in creating and maintaining urban economies.
Réseaux Urbains en Europe
Réseaux Urbains en Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Réseaux Urbains en Europe write by Denise Pumain. This book was released on 1996. Réseaux Urbains en Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the emergence of European urban networks and their consequences for the new position that each city has acquired through the internationalization of trade. Describes the networking process from the point of view of transport infrastructure, accesibility, and the new economic and political links that are growing up between cities. Covers mainly the period from 1970 to 1990.
Cities in Contemporary Europe
Cities in Contemporary Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities in Contemporary Europe write by Arnaldo Bagnasco. This book was released on 2000-05-11. Cities in Contemporary Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. European cities are at the centre of social, political and economic changes in Western Europe. This book proposes a new research agenda in urban sociology and politics applying primarily to European cities, in particular those that together make up the urban structure of Europe: a fabric of older cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, regional capitals and smaller state capitals. The contributors develop an analytical framework which views cities as local societies, and as collective factors and site for modes of governance. The three parts of the book examine the economics of cities, the social structures, and the modes and processes of governance. Each chapter comprises a comparison across several countries and examines critically the book's central theoretical perspective. This is not a book about the making of a Europe of cities but rather about how some cities can take advantage of their changing global and European environment.
Cities in Globalization
Cities in Globalization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities in Globalization write by Peter Taylor. This book was released on 2006-11-20. Cities in Globalization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their place alongside ‘internal relations’ within cities to constitute the full nature of cities. This collection of essays on how and why cities are connecting to each other in a globalizing world provides evidence for a new city-centered geography that is emerging in the twenty-first century. Cities in Globalization covers four key themes beginning with the different ways of measuring a ‘world city network’, ranging from analyses of corporate structures to airline passenger flows. Second is the recent European advances in studying ‘urban systems’ which are compared to the Anglo-American city networks approach. These chapters add conceptual vigour to traditional themes and provide findings on European cities in globalization. Thirdly the political implications of these new geographies of flows are considered in a variety of contexts: the localism of city planning, specialist ‘political world cities’, and the ‘war on terror’. Finally, there are a series of chapters that critically review the state of our knowledge on contemporary relations between cities in globalization. Cities in Globalization provides an up-to-date assembly of leading American and European researchers reporting their ideas on the critical issue of how cities are faring in contemporary globalization and is highly illustrated throughout with over forty figures and tables.
