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Note publique d'information : "Transforming space" deals with visible and invisible changes in premodern cities,
their causes and the way in which they were perceived and received. The chapters in
this book analyse the development and management of urban space, combining case studies
and insights from a range of cities from all over Europe. Several contributions deal
with the impact of major events on the urban tissue: geopolitics; disasters such as
fires or wars; expropriation or redevelopment projects directed by urban governments;
religious change such as the Dissolution in England, and the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
on the continent. On closer scrutiny, however, some of these major events were only
an accelerator of already ongoing processes of change. By shifting the perspective
from the city as a whole, to neighbourhoods, urban blocks or even plots of land, other
chapters reveal how functional change or real estate dynamics changed the urban landscape
almost imperceptibly. This book is written from a comparative perspective that takes
into account path-dependency. Pre-existing power relations, ideology and mentality,
the resilience of property structures, the impact of building regulations, subsidies,
or the effects of real estate markets are shown to have had different outcomes for
different social groups and the evolution of neighbourhoods.
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