Cities & the Sea

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, intellectuals and rulers placed more importance on urban planning. Planning looked different, of course, in various European cities. In Paris, riverside planning was patched into the existing frame of the city, whereas Scandinavian towns on the Baltic were over-designed to accommodate a degree of maritime trade unsustainable for cities writ large. In the eighteenth century, city planning fell out of vogue, and new solutions were introduced to help solve the problems created by urban development. With a series of helpful maps, Konvitz's book is an important source for urban historians of early modern Europe

Cities and the Sea: Port City PIanning in Early Modern Europe

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Cities and the Sea: Port City PIanning in Early Modern Europe

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Why cities don’t die: the surprising lessons of precision bombing in World War II and Vietnam

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The national map survey in eighteenth-century France

Published national map surveys began in France. Colbert launched a geodetic survey around 1680 that was interrupted several times before its completion in 1744. A second survey was launched in 1747–1750 and completed on the eve of the Revolution. These surveys were funded by private and public sources. Although the role of the government was critical to their success, these surveys did not institutionalize map surveys and their publication as a routine administrative function. Cartography became established in the French bureaucracy in terms of specialized map forms: hydrographic maps (which were published) by the Navy, and topographic maps (which were not published) by the Army. Nevertheless, when other nations began to establish national map surveys of their own, they were inspired by the French model. They did not try to replicate the exact bureaucratic or institutional framework of the surveys, but tried instead to emulate and improve upon their scientific and graphic methods and results. The most lasting impact of French eighteenth-century national map surveys was the proof they gave, by example, that such a vast enterprise could be undertaken and concluded successfully

Objectif: les villes; représentations urbaines et bombardement stratégique, 1914-1945

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Port functions, innovation and the making of the megalopolis

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The study and publication of maps as documents in historical scholarship

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Jobs for people and places

Cities and regions should not compete to attract jobs, but instead should try to create them. Jobs-to-people is a strategic approach based on the valorization of local and regional assets, including the performance of firms based on their networks and local strengths, natural and created assets, and the capacity to enhance endogenous development. Taken together, these describe territorial capital. National policies and local and regional initiatives are increasingly engaged in the task of enhancing territorial capital

The enlightened taste of Mlle. le Masson de Golft

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