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Session: Innovative Cities from the Renaissance to 2000

Shifting capitals : innovation (and conservative strategies) in Italy 1850-1880


Speaker:
Mauro Volpiano
Session: Innovative Cities from the Renaissance to 2000
Conference: Lyon 2008
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      • People in Place: neighborhood in the city
      • Performing the past in urban culture, 1900-50
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      • Planning and urban transformation in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries
      • Planning Local Pride: Modern City/Town Halls and Spatial Politics in European Cities
      • Popular Housing and social control in the European cities, XVIIIth-XXth centuries
      • Popular politics in the late medieval and early modern town (1200-1800)
      • Port Cities
      • Port Cities : Social, Cultural, and Built Repositories of Globalization and Networking in the 19th and 20th Century
      • Port-towns of Atlantic Europe in the Middle Ages
      • Portraits of the City: Rethinking Methodological Paradigms of Representations of the City
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      • Power and water problems in European cities in XV and XVI centuries
      • Premodern City as Community: Cohesive Forces and Integrative Factors in European Cities to 1800
      • Problems and Policy of Preservation in Contemporary Towns: Problems in the Policies of Preservation Today
      • Problems and Policy of Preservation in Contemporary Towns: The Shaping of Preservation Policies at the Turn of the Century
      • Problems of Growth in Early Modern Capital Cities
      • Professions médicales, Magistratures de santé et politiques sanitaires urbaines, XIVe-XVIIIe siècle
      • Projects in Progress
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      • Public goods vs economic interests: compararive perspectives on squatting
      • Public services and urban politics in European cities, 14th to 18th centuries
      • Public Space and Urban Experiences in Ottoman cities
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      • Public utilities, local resources and politics
      • Punishing the city from the Antiquity to the modern time
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      • Renaissance Venice: Urban Structure and Institutions
      • Replacing the family? Civil society, social relations and urban growth, 14th-19th centuries
      • Representing modernity: Political and social caricature in European cities in the late 19th and 20th centuries
      • Representing urbanity: Urban history and ideas about heritage and museums: Recent results and plans for the future
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      • Retailers and consumer changes in mediaval and early modern Europe
      • Revolutionary place-making: How do specific urban places become symbols of contestation?
      • Rights and Responsibilities’: Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Cities
      • Rituals Take Over
      • Rivers and cities: Imperial politics and the development of cities along the Volga and the Danube in the 18th and early 19th century
      • Routes of commerce and foreign merchants settlements in Mediterranean ports and central European cities: 14th-19th centuries
      • Rumours in the Early Modern European city
      • Sanatoriums and the city
      • Sanitary Policy in the 19th and 20th Century
      • Satellite Towns
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      • Science in the City: Negotiating Science in the Urban Space
      • Se repérer dans l'espace urbain: localisation, orientation et déplacement entre XIVe et XVIIIe siècle
      • Seaside Towns in the 19th and 20th Centuries
      • Section Planning
      • Self-Help and Cooperative Housing
      • Self-Representation and Public Culture of the Balkan Urban Classes
      • Selling the City: The Public, the Private and the Redevelopment of European City Centres, 1945-1979
      • Services et Employés Municipaux XIXe-XXe siècles
      • Shadows in the Enlightenment City: The City-Image and the Rise of Romanticism
      • Shapes of selling: The topographical expression of marketing in small European towns in a comparative perspective
      • Shaping Urban Identities in Late Medieval Europe: The Use of Space and Images
      • Shopping and Housing : Shops, Merchants’ Houses and the Market Place in Europe in the Early Modern Age
      • Shopping in the city: comparative perspectives on the transformation of urban consumer space and practice in Western Europe and beyond, c. 1700-1900
      • Shrinking cities
      • Silks, Tapestries and Townspeople: the Role of Luxury Textiles within Urban Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period
      • Small European towns and their urban history in the XXth century
      • So close, yet so far away: European and colonial urban transaction, 1415-1776
      • Social housing between the wars: Utopias and realities
      • Social legibility in the early modern city
      • Social Organisations
      • Social Segregation
      • Societies, associations, clubs and the making of urban networks since 1600
      • Soldiers, traders and engineers. Military and urban society in Europe (1650-1850)
      • Solidarités professionnelles, réseaux citadins, mutations spatiales: les formes d’exercice des métiers en ville du XVIe au Xxe siecles
      • Space as an explanatory factor: The International Towns Atlas Project
      • Sport and Leisure Spaces in the City: an Everyday Perspective
      • State of emergency: cities and catastrophes
      • Street life and street culture: Between Early Modern Europe and the present
      • Street Lighting in European Cities from the 17th to the 19th century
      • Structural change and urban life in old industrial cities after the Second World War
      • Student Perspectives on Urban History
      • Suburban Europe after the Second World War: city planning ambitions and achievements
      • Suburbs and the problems of urban integration
      • Suburbs and the Problems of Urban lntegration
      • Tales of the city: Outsiders’ descriptions of cities in the Early Modern period
      • Teaching urban history from medieval to modern
      • Technical networks and conflicts of power in European towns, 18th to 20th centuries
      • The ‘European’ city in the Maghreb: society and space clashes in the Early Modern period
      • The Administrative Town: European Regional Capitals
      • The ancient city in an European perspective: feeding the ancient city
      • The Artisan and the European Town
      • The artistic districts : between urban economy and social uses of the city (XVth-XIXth centuries)
      • The Baltic Sea Region 1700-1900. Trade
      • The changing urban family, 1500–1750: Cross-Europe perspectives
      • The city and the culture of writing in the Middle Ages
      • The city and the reception in the Modern and Contemporary Age
      • The City and the Senses
      • The City as Laboratory for Landscape in the 17th and 18th Centuries; La ville, laboratoire du paysage XVIIe / XVIIIe siècles
      • The city gate: negotiation and nexus
      • The City in the eye of Law. Comparative History (Middle Age- XIXth century)
      • The city of emotions: Modern cities and people’s responses to urban transformations, XIX and XX century
      • The concept of the "European City" and urban realities in 20th century southern Europe
      • The culture of associations: transnational perspectives, 1600-2010
      • The Decline of Industrial Cities
      • The Decline of the Industrial City
      • the Empire, the Province and the Reshaping of Cities in the Long Nineteenth Century
      • The European City and Energy
      • The European City at the Cross-Roads
      • The Evolution of Medical Provision in European Cities, from the Middle Ages to the Early Nineteenth Century
      • The Fate of European Urbanism in North America
      • The foreign Policy of Western Cities (XIVth-XVIIth Centuries)
      • The Grand Hotel and the City: Grand Hotels as Markers of European Urban Culture and Identity
      • The importance of being green: urban development and green areas
      • The Industrial and modern city
      • The integration of economic immigrants in early modern and industrialising cities
      • The Interactive City Map as a Means of Displaying and Interpreting Urban History
      • The Interplay of Global, National and Local in the City since 1800
      • The Language of Civic Buildings
      • The limitations of urban planning in socialist cities in the 20th century
      • The livable city: the politics of concepts and indicators
      • The Lure of the City 1400-1900
      • The Mental Image of the City in the 19th and 20th Centuries
      • The merchant in his web: personal relations in inter-city networks
      • The policing of urban space
      • The Politics of Capitals in Europa and North America
      • The post-Ottoman City in the Balkans (19th and early 20th Centuries)
      • The Post-Socialist City. Continuity and Change in Urban Space and Imagery
      • The post-war European suburb
      • The powers and the circulation of urban elites (Europe, XVIth-XVIIIth centuries)
      • The Practice of Comparison: The Sources of a Compared History of European Cities (Urban Utilities and Public Works, XVIIIth-XXth century)
      • The public use of urban history (19th-20th centuries)
      • The railway and the city
      • The religious use of urban spaces before and after the Reformation (ca. 1300–1650)
      • The reshaping of Ionian and Adriatic cities after the collapse of the republic of Venice, 1797-1866. A comparative analysis
      • The Rise and Fall of European Municipal Power since 1800
      • The rise and fall of urban cultural industries: place-bound dynamics of urban cultural industries
      • The role of women in domestic culture during the Twentieth Century
      • The Social Position of Women in Towns
      • The socialist city: Concepts and realities between pragmatism and utopianism
      • The spatial organisation of markets and fairs in the city, 15th to 17th centuries
      • The Street and Square: Public and Private Space
      • The Topography of Medieval Towns
      • The unauthorised city: Making and breaking regulations for modern urban space, 18th-20th centuries
      • The University and the City – Partnership or Rivalry?
      • The urban and local history of social policy
      • The urban crossroads: European cities and sexual adventure
      • The urban experience of modern war. European cities and aerial warfare in World War II
      • The Urban Neighbourhood: Myth and Reality
      • The urban parish (late Middle Ages and Early Modern period)
      • The value of practice and knowledge in building the Second Postwar city
      • The visualisation of urban consumer culture in the 19th and 20th centuries
      • The wired city: global communication in local environments
      • Theory and practices in building the 20th century city: Models and images
      • Towards the Sustainable City? Challenges and Strategies in Urban Environmental Policies after 1950
      • Tower and slab
      • Town and Crown: Political Cultures of Capital Cities
      • Towns are made of memory places – towns as memory places of urban life in the 19th and 20th century
      • Trade, Migration and urban networks in European port cities (17th – 20th centuries)
      • Transnational networks of urban planning expertise in African cities from a comparative perspective
      • Transnational Urbanism in the Americas
      • Transport et circulations intra-urbains dans une perspective comparative des grandes capitales européennes à l'époque préindustrielle
      • Transportation and urban development before the Railway Age
      • Transportation: a major player in the shaping of urban networks
      • Triumphal Arches and Urban entries: Mutations of an Urban Ritual in Christian Europe (16th-20th Centuries)
      • Typological versus genetic theories: The place and role of the Mendicants in medieval European towns
      • Underground the very forbidden urban space
      • Urban action groups in the 20th century
      • Urban Centres in South and South East Asia: Economy and Culture
      • Urban centres of South Asia: Merchants and maritime commerce
      • Urban Childhood in the second half of the 20th century
      • Urban Crime
      • Urban crises and intellectual visions: the roots and developments of modern urban planning
      • Urban Cultural Life
      • Urban Demography
      • Urban development of mediterranean island resort cities in the 19th and 20th centuries
      • Urban Development, Transformation and Socio-cultural change in towns divided by water XIX-XX centuries
      • Urban diversity : Planning and defining vs. living and experiencing
      • Urban elites and chivalrous culture in the Middle Ages: comparison between the Low Countries and Italy (XIIe-XIVe centuries)
      • Urban Elites and their Transformation in Early Modern Towns
      • Urban Elites in National Politics
      • Urban environmental history
      • Urban Environmental Problems
      • Urban Governance Since 1945 : State, Welfare and Civic Society
      • Urban growth and State Control
      • Urban historiography in comparative perspective
      • Urban History and Building Rituals: the construction of civic identity
      • Urban History Politics: Re-negotiating Local Pasts in the Face of 20th Century Turning Points
      • Urban Household and Family Structures
      • Urban images and representations in Europe and beyond during the 20th century
      • Urban living in modern cities. Educational ideas and practices, public and private strategies, 1880-1960
      • Urban Networks
      • Urban networks: between individual and collective
      • Urban Perspectives on Nursing and Midwifery, 1700-2000
      • Urban Planning and the Pursuit of Happiness (Renaissance-present)
      • Urban Planning and Urban Militancy in Europe from the 60’s onwards
      • Urban practice in the age of transition
      • Urban Property: Society, Economy and Built Environment
      • Urban reform in Germany, the United States, and German East Africa: comparisons and connections, 1890-1914
      • Urban social movements for shelter and the environment: a comparison among cities across European space and time
      • Urban Society as a Producer and a Product of Space. Historians of the City and Henri Lefebvre after 35 years
      • Urban space, violence and crime in the 19th and 20th centuries: Interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives
      • Urban stability and civic liberties: Two fundamental concepts and the practice of crime control in early Europe (1400-1800)
      • Urban Taxation in the Middle Ages
      • Urbanisation and changing administrative borders
      • Users and Uses of Green Spaces in Cities, 1800-2000
      • Villes de Flandre et d'Italie: Relectures d'une comparaison traditionelle
      • Villes et archipels/Cities and archipelagos
      • Villes européennes et crises financières (Moyen Age – Temps modernes)
      • Violence and the city: Law, Territory and Civic Identity in Ancient and Medieval Times
      • Violence in Urban Spaces since the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Comparative, Transnational and Entangled Perspectives
      • Virtual Historic Cities: a laboratory in Urban History
      • Visionary Urbanism: Migration, Exile, and the Cinematic City
      • Visionary Urbanism: Photographic, Filmic and Digital Representation
      • Void of space? The role of space in the discourse on urban history: A debate
      • Walking in the city's streets: The role of the city museum in the invention of urban past
      • Walls and the city
      • Water and the City
      • Ways of Communicating Urban History
      • What’s in a name? How we label peripheral places.
      • Who was running the cities? Elites and urban power structures, 1700-2000
      • Writing Urban History : [Multi]Disciplinary Comparisons
      • XIXth century cities: historical knowledge and urbanistic references in the XXth century
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