From the Ashgate list:
The Market and the City
Square, Street and Architecture in Early Modern Europe
Donatella Calabi, Istituto di Architettura di Venezia
Historical Urban Studies Series
This book takes a comparative approach to the effect merchants and traders
had on the urban history of market places - streets, squares and specific
buildings in some of the great commercial European cities between the 15th
and 17th centuries. Contents: List of illustrations, General editors'
preface, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Introduction. Part I: Market
spaces and urban structure: Orbem in Urbe Vidimus...: Towards a topography
of trade in the early modern city; Studying the configuration of space; The
notion of portus: a permanent square; Order amidst mixed use; Thousands of
variations: the transmission of models; Long-term reform; The 'longue
duree' and architectural history. The 'Ease of Provisioning': Sites and
images; The market insula;The bridge with shops; Physical discontinuity,
chronological continuity. The Market ih the City: At the beginning, on the
outskirts: Venice; Paris; Nuremberg; Elsewhere, in the centre: Augsburg;
Lubeck; Little by little, greater articulation: Venice, once again;
Florence; Antwerp; Amsterdam; The diffused model: Seville; London;
Diversity, fragmentation, form. Disorder and Mixed Use: The Concept of
'Boundary': Norms and increasing trade; Interference and interplay: stands,
shops, houses; Ownership and conflicts of interest; The culture of the
square and its image; Legal and physical boundaries. Part II: Commercial
Buildings: Use and Form: The Regularity of the Square: The square's
geometry and the 'line' of shops: Venice: San Giacomo at Rialto; Florence:
the Uffizi and the corridor; Genoa and Piazza Banchi; Seville and the
problem of the 'plaza mayor'; Some buildings: Covered markets, hailes,
drapperie; La Halle aux Draps; The Fabbriche Vecchie; The Clothworkers'
Hall; Bread, meat, fish, fruit and vegetables: Along the banks of the Grand
Canal; In the centre of Florence; In the cities of Spain; In the city of
London; Banks, business and the bourse: The Antwerp bourse; The Royal
Exchange of London; The Amsterdam bourse; The Casa Lonja of Seville; The
Loggia of Genoa; Fondaci: public warehouses and lodgings: The surplus
granaries: The 'albergarie' of the Germans, Turks and Persians in Venice;
The Hansa House in Antwerp; Index.
Includes 115 b&w illustrations
November 2004 246 pages
Hardback 075460893 X £57.50
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