Description - City Spaces: A History of Modern Urbanism 1780-1960 by Iain S. Black
During the course of the nineteenth century a distinctively modern form of urbanisation emerged based on economic changes and a transformation of the spatial scale of cities both of which fundamentally altered the ways in which urban life functioned. City Spaces explores Western Urbanism in situ and in its imperial context. It provides a broad based comparative approach to urban history that draws on a wide variety of geographical contexts and takes account not only of the ways that cities were constructed and functioned but also how they were interpreted and represented. Contemporary social and cultural theory is used to explore the comparative dimensions of urbanism. Theoretical approaches are fully integrated with empirical material drawn from North America, Europe and Asia. The text illustrates general processes common to urban societies as a whole taking account of the peculiarities of place imparted by different social, political and cultural considerations. Emphasis is on the processes that structure urbanism in its broadest sense rather than just those associated with the city as a built form.
The text makes accessible difficult conceptual material by its use of pedagogical features, such as biography and urban innovation boxes. Annotated reading and a glossary are also provided.
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