Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500

Henk Schmal

Preface Contributors Foreword: Patterns of Urban Growth Since 1500, Mainly in Western Europe 1. Urbanization. What’s in a Name? 2. Urbanisation and Economic Development in the Western World: Some Provisional Conclusions of an Empirical Study 3. Patterns of Urbanization in Pre-Industrial Europe, 1500-1800 4. The Impact of Functional Differentiation Within Systems of Industrialised Cities 5. Some Examples of Analyzing the Process of Urbanization: Northern Italy (Eighteenth to Twentieth Century) 6. The Influence of Industrialisation on Urban Growth in Prussia (1815-1914) 7. Urbanisation in Sweden, 1840-1920 8. The Rise of the ‘Randstad’, 1815-1930 9. The Population Growth of the Urban Municipalities in the Netherlands Between 1849 and 1970, With Particular Reference to the Period 1899-1930 10. Epilogue: One Subject, Many Views