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Author_Donatella Calabi
Avogadori Di Comun
Bird's Eye
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civic building regulation
commercial architecture
early modern Europe
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Ferdinand III
Functional Weight
Grace Church
Henry Iii
Large Families
Las Gradas
Leonardo Loredan
Les Halles
Market's Geographical Location
Market's Importance
Market’s Importance
Marlene Klein
Mercato Nuovo
merchant class influence
Padre Del Comune
Piazza Ducale
Provveditori Sopra
public space transformation
St Mark's Square
St Mark’s Square
Strada Nuova
Taddeo Gaddi
Town Hall
Transportation Network
urban history
urban marketplace evolution
Wooden Bridge
Product details
- ISBN 9781138251038
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The early modern period is often characterised as a time that witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. From Italy and Spain in the south, to the Low Countries and England in the north, men of business and trade came to play an increasingly pivotal role in the culture, politics and economies of western Europe. This book takes a comparative approach to the effect such merchants and traders had on the urban history of market places - streets, squares and civic buildings - in some of the great commercial European cities between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. It looks at how this in period, the transformations of designated commercial areas were important enough to modify relationships throughout the entire urban context. Market places tend to be very ancient, continuing to function for centuries on the same location; but between the middle of the fourteenth and the first decades of the seventeenth, their structures began to change as new regulations and patterns of manufacture, distribution and consumption began to install a new uniformity and geometry on the market place. During the period covered by this study, most major European cities undertook the rebuilding of entire zones, constructing new buildings, demolishing existing structures and embellishing others. This book analyses the intentions of innovation, in parallel with sanitary and hygienic reasons, the juridical regulations of the architecture of certain building types and the urban strategies as efficient tools to better control the economic activities within the city.
Donatella Calabi is Professor at L'Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy.
