Living in the City: Urban Institutions in the Low Countries, 1200–2010

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L.A.C.J. (Leo) Lucassen (Leiden University, Netherlands) W.H. (Wim) Willems (Leiden University, Netherlands)

Living in the City

Urban Institutions in the Low Countries, 1200–2010

L.A.C.J. (Leo) Lucassen (Leiden University, Netherlands), W.H. (Wim) Willems (Leiden University, Netherlands)

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Routledge
14 October 2024

European history; Social & cultural history; Archaeology; Urban communities; Economic history

Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens people and that can marginalize newcomers. Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the city since the High Middle Ages, focusing on one of the earliest urbanized regions in the world, the Low Countries. The book is a quest for new insights that leads the reader from Medieval Ghent and Bruges, through the Dutch Golden Age and the mass urbanization in the age of Industrialization to the present Eurodelta. A region that emerged in the last century with Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam as nodal points in a global urban network. To understand the motivations of so many to settle in cities this book focuses on a wide variety of urban institutions. What was the role of churches, guilds and businesses, but also theaters, architecture, parks and pavements? What were the cultural, economic, social, political and spatial dynamics that transformed cities into centers of creativity and innovation? How did the attractiveness of cities change over time, when cities lost their autonomy and became part of the nation state and global forces? In this book a team of internationally reknown scholars (in the field of history, art, literature, economy and the social sciences) look for continuity and change in the last eight centuries of urban developments in one of the most remarkable urban regions of the world.

Edited by: L.A.C.J. (Leo) Lucassen (Leiden University Netherlands), W.H. (Wim) Willems (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 508g
ISBN: 9781032924045
ISBN 10: 1032924047
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leo Lucassen is Professor of Social History at Leiden University. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and has published extensively on migration, integration, urban history and state formation. Wim Willems is Professor of Social History at Leiden University. He has created a stir with his autobiographical stories, including Stadskind. Kroniek van een naoorlogse jeugd (City Child. Chronicle of a Postwar Youth) and Stadsblues. Kroniek van de jaren zestig (City Blues. Chronicle of the Sixties).