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New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500 book cover

1st Edition

New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500

Edited By Simon Gunn, Tom Hulme Copyright 2020
304 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Urban power and politics are topics of abiding interest for students of the city. This exciting collection of essays explores how Europe’s cities have been governed across the last 500 years. Taken as a whole, it provides a unique historical overview of urban politics in early modern and modern Europe. At the same time, it guides the reader through the variety of ways in which power and... Read more

Introduction: Unravelling Urban Governance

Simon Gunn and Tom Hulme

Part I: Elites, Institutions, and Civil Society

1. Reassessing Power and Governance in Late Medieval Cities: Institutions and the Cursus Honorum

Justin Colson

2. Urban Governance and Prison Building in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1820–1845

Richard J. Butler

3. Governing Taste: Fin-de-SieÌcle Cracow, Its Museums and the Urban Elite in the Shaping of the Modern Metropolis

Markian Prokopovych

Part II: Behaviour and the Governing of Morality

4. Governing Sexuality: Regulating Prostitution in Early Modern Europe

Marion Pluskota

5. Negotiating Urban Governance: Norm Entrepreneurs in Dutch Cities, 1850–1900

Stefan Couperus and Dirk Jan Wolffram

Part III: Urban Rituals and the Performance of Power

6. The St Francis Housing Project: Rituals, Symbols and Discourses in Housing Policies in Rome After the Second World War

Bruno Bonomo

7. Post-War Urban Pageants in Finland: Performance, Participation and Power

Tanja Vahtikari

Part IV: Governmentality and the State

8. The Foundation of St Petersburg as a Variation upon Foucault’s Governmentality: The Russian Service City, 1703–1740

Gayle Lonergan and Kuzma Kukushkin

9. Urban Materialities: Citizenship, Public Housing and Governance in Modern Britain

Tom Hulme

10. "A Community Not Our Own": Urban Enclosure and Spatial Governmentality Under Fascism

Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago

Part V: Beyond Foucault: New Narratives for Urban Governance

11. Urban Individuality and Urban Governance in Twentieth-Century Europe

Moritz Föllmer

12. Heterodoxies: New Approaches to Power and Agency in the Modern City

Simon Gunn

Biography

Simon Gunn is Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester.

Tom Hulme is Lecturer in the School of Anthropology, History, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University, Belfast.

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