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Contents: General editors' preface; Preface; Introduction: The city and the railway in Europe, Ralf Roth and Marie-Noëlle Polino; Line, Region, City-System: Interactions between railways and cities in 19th-century Germany: some case studies, Ralf Roth; Cities and railways in the Netherlands between 1830 and 1860, Henk Schmal; Railways, towns and villages in Transylvania (Romania): impact of the railways on urban and rural morphology, Michel Tanase; The advent of transport and aspects of urban modernisation in the Levant during the 19th century, Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis; The impact of the Trans-Siberian Railway on architecture and urban planning of Siberian cities, Ivan V. Nevzgodine; Portuguese cities and railways in the 19th and 20th century, Magda Pinheiro; Downtown by the train: the impact of railways on Italian cities in the 19th century ” case studies, Andrea Giuntini; The Metropolis and the Railway: Railway development in the capital city: the case of Paris, François Caron; Railway stations and planning projects in Prague, 1845-1945, Alena Kubova; Urban form, social patterns and economic impact arising from the development of public transport in London, 1840-1940, Neil McAlpine and Austin Smyth; Railways plans and urban politics in 19th century Dublin, Hugh Campbell; Following the tracks ” railways in the city centry of Helsinki: bygone past or unwritten urban history?, Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna; Political networks, rail networks: public transportation and neighbourhood radicalism in Weimar Berlin, Pamela E. Swett; The impact of the railway on the lives of women in the 19th-century city, Diane Drummond; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
Title first published in 2003. The advent and development of railways during the nineteenth century not only contributed to industrialisation and urbanisation, but transformed relations of space and time, altering long held perceptions and experiences of distance and geography. The City and the Railway in Europe is concerned with the ways that railways have affected the development of the modern European city. It explores cultural and social history, reflecting struggles for hegemony, identity, gender roles and perceptions that the railways brought into urban life.
