Deschutes Public Library

The streets of Europe, the sights, sounds, and smells that shaped its great cities, Brian Ladd

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

The streets of Europe

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Brian Ladd

the sights, sounds, and smells that shaped its great cities

"Street Life tells the history of the city street as a vanished world that many people yearn for but that few understand in its complexity. Ladd's journey centers on four major cities: London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. He focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth and his story of the rich culture of the street ends with the arrival of the automobile - the street increasingly became equated not with commerce or entertainment or assembly but with rapid transportation. As Ladd ably weaves architectural and social history he includes sights, smells, and sounds-chapters on transportation and sanitation provide the less dazzling side of these sensations. Street performers, urban activity, street commerce, and public order are all part of the vivid history. In a conclusion, Ladd ponders the move off the streets, before and after 1900 and how our thinking about streets and cities has changed and how it might change more"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction: The form and use of city streets -- Streets in history -- Wheeling and dealing: the street economy -- Strolling, mingling, and lingering: social life on the street -- Out of the muck: the sanitary city -- Transportation: the acceleration of the street -- Public order and public space: control and design -- Conclusion: looking down on the street