The Fabric of the City
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Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), vol. 68
- Pages: approx. 260 p.
- Size:178 x 254 mm
- Illustrations:6 b/w, 8 tables b/w., 5 maps b/w
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2026
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-61001-6
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This volume examines the evolution of the cities role and impact in the main urban networks and systems in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.
BIO
Peter Clark is Emeritus Professor of European Urban History, University of Helsinki and former director of the Centre for urban History, University of Leicester. He has written or edited over 20 books including works on European Small Towns (CUP), European Cities and Towns (OUP), The Subaltern City with D. Menjot (Brepols), and the Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History (OUP, 2013)
Summary
This volume provides for the first time a comparative view of the development of small towns and smaller cities across the world from the Middle Ages to the present day. It examines the evolution of their role and impact in the main urban networks and systems in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. It focuses on key topics and cutting edge questions relating to the urban economy, population, social life, governance and cultural life. Reassessing the conventional picture of small towns in decline, it argues for the dynamic dimension of their development and their importance for global urbanisation over the long run. This is a major pioneering study, bringing together the latest research by leading and younger scholars which sheds sustained light on a major component of the urban system in both the Global North and South thus makes an essential contribution to understanding world urban development over time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
1.Introduction
Peter Clark
2. Small towns and urbanization in medieval England
Christopher Dyer
3. Small towns in late medieval Hungary: levels and factors of urbanity
Katalin Szende
4. Small towns in China: History and policy from the Middle Ages to the Present
William T. Rowe
5. The evolution of Castilian small towns: Context and forces for change in regional Spain from the Pre-Modern Period to the Present
María A. Castrillo Romón, Marina Jiménez Jiménez, Miguel Fernández-Maroto and Juan Luis de las Rivas Sanz
6. Small towns in Latin America: Transformations during the 18th and 19th centuries
Mariana Canedo
7. Small towns or small cities: The non-metropolitan United States, 1820-2020
Carl Abbott
8. The rise and fall of small towns in Sweden, 1800-2020
Lars Nilsson
9. Small towns and cultural identity: Heritage, regionalism and beyond in the Czech Lands, ca 1900-1950
Jaroslav Ira
10. Global connectivity and small towns in the Central African urban network during the Colonial Period before the Second World War
Johan Lagae
11. The changing importance of small towns: Malaya in the Modern Era
Lynn Hollen Lees
12. Smaller frontier cities of Jordan: Unveiling historical dynamics and paths to sustainable development in the Middle East from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period
Janset Shawash
13. Greek small island towns in transition: 19th to 2lst century
Katerina Chatzikonstantinou and Lydia Sapounaki-Drakaki
Authors’ Biographies
List of Figures and Tables
Indexes
