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The construction of the idea of the city in Early Modern Europe: PĂ©rez de Herrera and Nicolas Delamare.
- Source :
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Journal of urban history [J Urban Hist] 2010; Vol. 36 (5), pp. 685-708. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- With the economic and social changes in Europe at the end of the sixteenth century and the formation and consolidation of an urban network throughout the continent, questions such as poverty, sanitation, and hygiene began to pose acute problems in the cities of the age. A new school of thought, known in Spain as Ciencia de Policía and in the Mediterranean area as Policy Science, proposed solutions for these problems and tested them through practical interventions inside the urban setting. In this article the author compares the work of two thinkers: Cristóbal Pérez de Herrera, a Spaniard, and Nicolas Delamare, a Frenchman. Writing in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Pérez de Herrera examined the organization of Madrid, the newly founded (though still not firmly established) capital of Spain. Delamare based his study on the Paris of the early eighteenth century. The author stresses the coincidences in some of the ideas of both thinkers and shows how their writings begin to embody a new idea of the city, many aspects of which have survived until the present day.
- Subjects :
- Cities economics
Cities ethnology
Cities history
Cities legislation & jurisprudence
Europe ethnology
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
History, 18th Century
Local Government history
Preventive Health Services history
Social Problems economics
Social Problems ethnology
Social Problems history
Social Problems legislation & jurisprudence
Social Problems psychology
Urban Health history
Urban Population history
City Planning economics
City Planning education
City Planning history
City Planning legislation & jurisprudence
Hygiene education
Hygiene history
Poverty Areas
Sanitation history
Social Change history
Social Responsibility
Socioeconomic Factors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0096-1442
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of urban history
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 20715320
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144210365680