1st Edition

Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900

Edited By Alida Clemente, Dag Lindström, Jon Stobart Copyright 2021
262 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c.1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter, framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a... Read more

1. Introduction

Alida Clemente, Dag Lindström and Jon Stobart

Part 1: Houses and Households: Spaces, Practices, and Representations

2. Toronto’s Early Apartment Houses: A Micro-Geography

Richard Dennis

3. The Brilliant Idea of the Bookkeeper Johan Peter Frisk and the Coming of an Urban Wooden Housing Culture in Linköping, Sweden

Göran Tagesson

4. The Shop and the Home: Commercial and Domestic Space in Eighteenth-Century England

Matt Jenkins and Jon Stobart

5. Representing a Disreputable House

Ulrik Langen

Part 2: Streets and Pavements: Sociability, Improvement, and Conflict

6. Sidewalks and Alignment of the Streets: The Gap between Large-Scale Planning and the Building-Scale in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Brussels-Paris)

Christophe Loir and Thomas Schlesser

7. Liberalism Underfoot: A Micro-Geography of Street Paving and Social Dissolution—Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, 1898-1899

Phillip Gordon Mackintosh

8. Policing Stockholm’s Filth: Flows to Fixedness, 1776–1836

Tobias Larsson

9. Representing the ‘Other’ Berlin, c. 1900: Micro-geographies of the Proletarian City

Isabel Rousset

Part 3: Neighbourhoods: Networks, Spaces, and Identities

10. Public Houses and Hidden Networks: Roles of Women in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal

Mary Ann Poutanen and Sherry Olson

11. The Micro-Geography of Political Meeting Places in Manchester and Sheffield c.1780-1850

Sam Griffiths and Katrina Navickas

12. Trouble at the Edge of Town: Policing Montreal’s Urban Periphery in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Dan Horner

13. Conclusions

Alida Clemente, Dag Lindstrom and Jon Stobart

Biography

Alida Clemente is Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Economic History at the University of Foggia. She has published on urban and regional economic history of the Mediterranean between the 17th and the 19th centuries, with special regard to fisheries, luxury consumption, and famines.

Dag Lindström is Professor of History at Uppsala University. He has published on urban social and cultural history, history of crime, craft guilds, leisure culture and unmarried adults.

Jon Stobart is Professor of history at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published on a range of topics with retailing and consumption during the 18th century, including second-hand trade, groceries, shopping practices and the supply and material culture of the country house.