The Urban Logistic Network

Giovanni Favero is Professor of Economic History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, in the Department of Management. In 2018-19 he was the Thomas K. McCraw Visiting Fellow in US Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on organisational history in a long term perspective.

1. Introduction.- 2. Gateway of Gothenburg.- 3. Bordeaux from Its Vineyards to Its Hinterland: A Regional Capital in the Late Middle Ages.- 4. Urban Networks on the Move: The Austrian Netherlands' Transit Policy and the Development of the Belgian Urban Networks in the 18^th Century (1705-1793).- 5. Persistence and Evolution in the Eastern Sicilian Coastal Corridor: The Mobility of Goods and People at the Port of Catania (1817-1860).- 6. Bridging the Gap: The Belfast-Dublin Railway Corridor in the 19^th Century.- 7. Urban Network and Economic Policy: The Milanese Case during the Spanish and Austrian Age.- 8. The Construction of an Inland Gateway: Milan in the Early Modern Period.- 9. Gateways as Intermodal Nodes in Different Ages: The Venetian Region, 18^th to 20^th Centuries.- 10. The Flaxseed Trade between Courland and Brittany in the 18^th Century.- 11. Ports and Their Functions: Some Reflections about Preindustrial Logistics.- 12. Tracking Waters: Small Cities Transport Network of Early Modern Friesland.