Bücher der Reihe Historical Urban Studies Series

This book explores the multiplicity of green space developments in the modern city and the many influences shaping their evolution. Focusing on four northern European metropoles: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg, it examines how each has responded to the challenges and problems presented by green space, and what lessons can be drawn from the differing approaches taken.

The issue of ethical standards in public life has become a central concern in contemporary public discourse. This volume considers how ethical debates arise as a result of differential access to positions of authority and from competition for public resources. It also provides an analysis of the phenomenon of corruption.

Discusses the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Based on a range of archival sources, this book offers the a systematic analytical account of historical change in a colonial city.

Explores the multiplicity of green space developments in the modern city, ranging over parks and commons, garden suburbs and allotment gardens, green belts and national urban parks. This book is concerned about the influences shaping the green space's evolution, from international planning ideas to the effects of the transport revolution.

Illustrates the variety of ways in which minorities found a place in towns - as citizens, outsiders, or in some other role - and how that could vary according to local circumstances or over time. This book discusses questions of identity, perception, legal status and relations between groups.

The question of who actually ran cities in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries has been debated by urban historians. This volume offers an examination of the relationship between elite and "power" in cities; bringing together the economic, social and cultural history of elite and the political history of power resources and decision-making.

Artisans played a central role in the European town as it developed from the Middles Ages onwards. Their workshops were at the heart of productive activity, their guilds were often central to the political and legal order of towns, and their culture helped shape civic ritual and the urban order.