The European City Book

	List of Illustrations
	Series Editor's Preface
	Introduction
1	Emergence from the Ancient World	1
	The Idea of the City in the Classical Tradition	1
	Urban Transformation of the Late Empire	6
	The Crisis of the Cities after the Fall of the Western Empire	13
	The Emerging Characteristics of the Western Urban System	18
2	The Creation of a New Urban System	23
	The Italian Maritime Cities	24
	Cities in Other Parts of Europe	38
	Colonization and the New Cities	67
	The Medieval Urban Heritage	72
3	The Perfecting of the Urban Environment	74
	Stabilization and the Last Urban Expansions of the Fourteenth Century	74
	Representation of the Stabilized City	78
	The New Artistic Culture	81
	The Renewal of Urban Planning in Italy	85
	The Separation of Theory and Practice	101
4	Confrontation with the World	105
	The European Resources Employed Overseas	106
	The Colonization of Asia and Africa	109
	The Colonization of the New World	112
5	The Difficult Adjustment to the Laws of Perspective	124
	The New Conditions for Urban Planning	124
	The City in Perspective: Urban Transformation between 1550 and 1650	126
	The City in Perspective: Urban Transformation from 1650 to 1750	138
	Departure from Perspective: The English Experience	151
6	The Industrial City	160
	Urban Revolution	160
	Haussmannization: The Post-Liberal City and its Problems	169
7	Europe in the Contemporary World	189
	Cities of the Europeanized World	189
	The Invention of a New City	194
	The Renewal of the European City in the Past Fifty Years	202
	Reflections on the Future	213
	Notes	221
	Bibliography	227
	Index	231