Reclaiming the City: Innovation, Culture, Experience (eds. Marjaana Niemi & Ville Vuolanto; Finnish Literature Society, 2003) explores recent urban development from the perspective of urban historians.
The dramatic changes which cities and towns have undergone over the past three decades raise important questions for urban historians. Do these changes signal a fundamental break with the past? To what extent have global forces dictated the change? Can cities and towns forge their own destinies? Reclaiming the City provides historical and comparative perspectives on these topical questions, examining in particular the impact of global and local forces on urban development in the long term, the cities’ capacity to rise to the challenge and their continuous need to both en-hance and contain diversity. These themes are developed by exploring different aspects of urban development such as counter-urbanisation, cultural innovations, changes in spatial form, migration and identity formation. The questions are explored in diverse urban settings, ranging from ancient Rome to the present-day metropolis, from manufacturing centres to national capitals and from noble World Heritage cities to disreputable sailortowns. The contributors are from Finland, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Sweden and the United States. The volume is published in honour of Academy Professor Marjatta Hietala.
– Marjaana Niemi and Ville Vuolanto (eds.), Reclaiming the City: Innovation, Culture, Experience (Studia Fennica Historica; Finnish Literature Society, 2003), book description
The text is in English. The book is illustrated with some black-and-white photographs and diagrams.
Our copy is in good condition. The pages are clean; no markings. The glueing of the binding is fine. The covers show some signs of shelf wear and use. There are some remains of a sticker on the front cover.
