Konvitz, Josef W.

Cities & the Sea Port City Planning in Early Modern Europe / Josef W. Konvitz. - 1 online resource (1 online resource xv, 235 pages) : illustrations) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License Originally published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1978

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.

The Origins and Practice of Port City Planning -- The 16th Century Background -- Seaworthy Cities: Planning in the Expanding European World of the 17th Century -- The New Port Cities of France, 1660-1720 -- The Search for New Port Cities in France -- The Government Proceeds to Plan -- Civic Order and Patterns of Growth in the New Cities -- The Decline of Port City Planning -- Port City Planning after the 17th Century.

Open Access

9781421434629


Port cities.
City planning.
Port cities--History.--Europe
City planning--History.--Europe


Europe.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

HT169.E8 / K66