Urban HistoryPub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1017/s0963926823000767
Jinming Yi
{"title":"From writing to record-keeping: a study of York’s civic administrative literacy, 1272–1307","authors":"Jinming Yi","doi":"10.1017/s0963926823000767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000767","url":null,"abstract":"Using York during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries as a case-study, this article discusses a pivotal aspect of the development of civic administrative literacy: the inception of record-keeping. Previous historians have failed to note the evident advancement in York’s civic administrative literacy during the late thirteenth century, and they have usually dated the earliest surviving urban records to the mid-fourteenth century. By comparing different classes of civic and ecclesiastical records, this article reveals that York’s civic administration was in fact engaged in archival preservation from the late thirteenth century. In addition, by examining evidence that appears sporadically in royal archives, this article argues that the commencement of York’s urban archive was significantly influenced by the policies and archival activities of the royal government. Overall, this article aims to contribute to the literature on the early history of civic administrative literacy.","PeriodicalId":45626,"journal":{"name":"Urban History","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139760709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Urban HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-25DOI: 10.1017/s0963926823000755
Will Clement
{"title":"Paternalism, petitions and the politics of church construction in Alsace, c. 1850–1885","authors":"Will Clement","doi":"10.1017/s0963926823000755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000755","url":null,"abstract":"This article builds on recent works which challenge the dichotomy between religion and modern urban planning. The article focuses on a case-study in the Alsatian city of Mulhouse during the nineteenth century. Over a period of 30 years, Catholic parishioners and clergy repeatedly petitioned the town’s Calvinist industrial and municipal elite for a church to be built in the paternalist <jats:italic>cités ouvrières</jats:italic> housing district, culminating in the eventual construction of the church of Saint-Joseph by 1883. Through a close analysis of the archival records of these petitions, the discussions they sparked and the shifting local and national political dynamics of the city, this article argues that religious groups used myriad tactics to engage in modern planning and that municipal authorities were won over by these tactics if they were politically expedient.","PeriodicalId":45626,"journal":{"name":"Urban History","volume":"336 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139580172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Urban HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1017/s0963926823000640
Jasper Segerink, Kristof Loockx
{"title":"Lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in harbour districts: evidence from the port of Antwerp c. 1860–1910","authors":"Jasper Segerink, Kristof Loockx","doi":"10.1017/s0963926823000640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000640","url":null,"abstract":"The late nineteenth-century harbour districts, or so-called ‘sailortowns’, are generally depicted as deterritorialized ‘enclaves’ of heightened globalized transience. However, these neighbourhoods were just as much shaped by semi-durable local labouring communities. This article studies lodging houses as facilitators of global and local entanglements in harbour districts from a socio-cultural perspective, with Antwerp in the late nineteenth century as a case-study. Analysing the spatiality, materiality, sociability and people of the lodging phenomenon, it reveals that next to the highly transient seafarers, sailortown accommodated a diverse yet largely local population of small entrepreneurs and their families right between transience and permanence.","PeriodicalId":45626,"journal":{"name":"Urban History","volume":"215 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Urban HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1017/s0963926823000627
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Florian Urban
{"title":"Beyond formal and informal: mid-twentieth-century residential architecture in Barcelona’s El Carmel neighbourhood","authors":"Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Florian Urban","doi":"10.1017/s0963926823000627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000627","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses houses on the periphery of Barcelona and in particular in the El Carmel neighbourhood, which were built by poor country-to-city migrants from southern Spain in the post-World War II period. They were constructed following two typologies: <span>barracas</span> (sheds), one-storey huts on an irregular street plan, and <span>coreas</span> (‘Korea houses’), more formally looking one- to three-storey structures lined up on orderly laid-out streets. Based on archival documents, contemporaneous publications and interviews with former <span>autoconstructores</span> (self-builders), the article analyses both social conditions and physical structures. While these buildings were often unauthorized and constructed by informal means, they were just as often built with the landowner’s consent, involving architects and building professionals, and retroactively legalized. The article concludes that in this respect Barcelona’s ‘informal neighbourhoods’ in fact straddled the realms of the formal and the informal, to the extent that the habitual distinction between formal and informal architecture has to be considered inadequate.</p>","PeriodicalId":45626,"journal":{"name":"Urban History","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139482662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Urban HistoryPub Date : 2024-01-15DOI: 10.1017/s0963926823000585
Alejandra Monti, Ursula Exss
{"title":"The Ford Foundation and the Community Facilities Program in Chile: a proposal between local needs and foreign technical assistance (1964–1969)","authors":"Alejandra Monti, Ursula Exss","doi":"10.1017/s0963926823000585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000585","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Between 1964 and 1969, the Ford Foundation developed the Community Facilities Program in Chile, which articulated technical and financial assistance in the field of architecture and the training of local experts, in addition to its action in the renovation of state structures related to housing and urban planning. In this context, the design strategy introduced innovations based on architectural research that were a pedagogical novelty, which contributed to the discussion on the role of technical assistance in the Southern Cone, redefining the relationship between philanthropy, state and University.</p>","PeriodicalId":45626,"journal":{"name":"Urban History","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139470888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Urban HistoryPub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1017/s0963926823000573
Fabrizio Nevola
{"title":"Introduction: the material culture of public space in early modern Europe","authors":"Fabrizio Nevola","doi":"10.1017/s0963926823000573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000573","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue draws on new research conducted by the <jats:italic>PUblic REnaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present</jats:italic> project, funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (see: <jats:uri xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" xlink:href=\"http://www.hiddencities.eu\">www.hiddencities.eu</jats:uri>). The project considers how public spaces, from street corners to major city squares, were shaped by the everyday activities of ordinary city dwellers between 1450 and 1700. We have focused on the urban fabric, and the ways in which meanings are attached to specific sites in the city (and objects in museum collections) that are often overlooked – the material culture of public space. Our themes are familiar to urban historians – sociability, the circulation of knowledge, information or gossip, authority and its contestation – although by moving between textual sources, maps, the built fabric and museum artefacts, our interdisciplinary and cross-Europe approach is structured around material objects in the early modern period.","PeriodicalId":45626,"journal":{"name":"Urban History","volume":"72 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Urban HistoryPub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1017/s0963926823000548
Peter W. Hansen, Jesper Jakobsen, Ulrik Langen, Rikke Simonsen
{"title":"From flesh to paper: bodily and material transformation in seventeenth-century Copenhagen – a case-study","authors":"Peter W. Hansen, Jesper Jakobsen, Ulrik Langen, Rikke Simonsen","doi":"10.1017/s0963926823000548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000548","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the transformation of the body of a female child murderer as she passed through specific spatial configurations in the urban setting of the seventeenth-century capital of Denmark–Norway. By using the case of Gertrud Nielsdatter, we explore the significance of public urban spaces in the bodily and material transformation of a woman from a condemned sinner to an object of scientific wonder. This transformation was facilitated by practices in diverse public spaces – controlled or influenced by government, city, church, as well as academic authorities and stakeholders – such as the city court, the place of execution, the university and, not least, the book shops across Europe selling books containing the print representing internal organs of Gertrud Nielsdatter. The case demonstrates how the physical body of an ordinary – yet outlawed – Copenhagener was repeatedly transformed in interaction with public spaces and the material culture of buildings, fixtures and fittings.","PeriodicalId":45626,"journal":{"name":"Urban History","volume":"47 14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Urban HistoryPub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1017/s0963926823000524
Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet
{"title":"Indoor public spaces and the mobility of religious knowledge in late medieval Deventer and Amiens","authors":"Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet","doi":"10.1017/s0963926823000524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000524","url":null,"abstract":"This article will address the transfer of religious knowledge in two north-western European cities from a spatial perspective. Our starting point will be the thesis that immobile knowledge in closed places of knowledge (<jats:italic>lieux de savoir</jats:italic>) does not exist: (religious) knowledge only becomes functional in the dynamic encounter with users and it is disseminated through social networks. This approach, which involves the movement from closed spaces to processes and practices, also entails a questioning of outdoor and indoor spaces; of private and public spaces. The article will take its start from several case-studies of indoor public spaces, the transmission of religious knowledge and social networks, based on documentation from Deventer in the northern Low Countries and Amiens on the border of the southern Low Countries and France.","PeriodicalId":45626,"journal":{"name":"Urban History","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Urban HistoryPub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1017/s0963926823000561
Massimo Rospocher, Enrico Valseriati
{"title":"Politics in the street: the materiality of urban public spaces in Renaissance Italy","authors":"Massimo Rospocher, Enrico Valseriati","doi":"10.1017/s0963926823000561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000561","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In Renaissance Italy, the political power of authorities found one of its expressions in material symbols of sovereignty. The placing of inscriptions, sculptures and columns and the commissioning of frescoes in streets, piazzas and public spaces, for example, were essential ways of communicating political or spiritual authority to the populace. Sometimes perceived as representations of a top-down form of communication, in the urban context these same material emblems of power became political objects through which to express dissent, as in the case of public loggias, speaking statues or graffiti on walls and civic palaces. Presenting case-studies from various cities in northern Italy, this article investigates the dialectics between the people and the authorities in the urban fabric, especially in everyday life. Combining a spatial and a material approach to politics, this article reveals the dynamic and relational nature of political public spaces.","PeriodicalId":45626,"journal":{"name":"Urban History","volume":"124 25","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135137143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}