Why People Want to Live in the City

Title: Why People Want to Live in the City

Writer: Leo Lucassen

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789035135123

Condition: Good

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Description:
A collection of essays on the development of the city and its inescapable relationship to the surrounding countryside The city is a shelter, a marketplace and the elevator to social development _ and success. But the city has also traditionally been a place that frightens people and pushes some newcomers to the margins. In Why people want to live in the city, 1200-2010, the authors search for the secret of the magnetism of cities. A search that leads from the medieval Southern Netherlands, via the Golden Age in the Republic, to the future of the Eurodelta. Some groups eventually settled and others found little to their liking in the city. What role did facilities such as churches, guilds and companies, but also theatres and architecture, play in this continuous process of attraction and rejection? In this collection, the authors search for continuity and breaks in the history of the Northern and Southern Netherlands. The desire or undesirability of newcomers appears to be the common thread. With contributions by Wim Blockmans, Marc Boone, Maarten Prak, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Marjolein 't Hart, Manon van der Heijden, Herman Pleij, Lia van Gemert, Marita Mathijsen, Dirk Jan Wolffram, Jan Hein Furnée, Michaël Deinema, Ed Taverne, Luuk Boelens and Robert Kloosterman.