ABSTRACT
Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual currents, prevailing economic climates and unresolved tensions. They are physical entities, shaped by topography, time and technology, as well as social and spatial constructs. They are also always gendered and contested spaces.
This volume, the last from the Gender in the European Town (GENETON) project, approaches life in the European town over time and across class and national boundaries. Through contextualized case studies, it provides scholars and students with new research—snapshots—of contemporary physical and built environments that explores how contemporary urban residents experienced and deployed gendered urban spaces over an important period of modernization.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|11 pages
Conceived, Constructed and Contested Spaces
part I|119 pages
Conceived and Constructed Spaces
chapter 2|17 pages
Aristocratic Townhouse as Urban Space
chapter 3|14 pages
“A Busy Day with Me, or at Least with My Feet & My Stockings”
chapter 4|29 pages
“For the Gentlemen of the Town to Walk on by Way of Exchange”
chapter 7|18 pages
The City of Men
part II|99 pages
Contested Spaces