The Urban Logistic Network (eBook)

Cities, Transport and Distribution in Europe from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Giovanni Favero, Michael-W. Serruys, Miki Sugiura (Herausgeber)

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2019 | 1st ed. 2019
XVII, 253 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-27599-0 (ISBN)

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This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world. In the past, gateway cities were merely perceived as transport points, only relevant to maritime shipping. Today they are seen as the organic entities coordinating the allocation of resources and supporting the growth, efficiency and sustainability of logistics (including both the transport and distribution of goods and services). Using different historical case studies, the authors consider how logistics shaped urban networks and were shaped by them.

Giovanni Favero is Professor of Economic History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, in the Department of Management. In 2018-19 he was the Thomas K. McCraw Visiting Fellow in US Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on organisational history in a long term perspective.

Michael-W. Serruys is a Marie Sk?odowska Curie Action Fellow at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France. In recent years his main focus lay on 18^th century Belgian economic, maritime and transport history. As a MSCA Fellow he now researches the societal effects of environmental crisis, like the shipworm epidemic in 18^th century Western Europe.

Miki Sugiura is Professor of Global Economic History at the Faculty of Economics of Hosei University, Japan. Currently (2018-2020) she is Visiting Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include history of distribution and trade organizations, urban formation and women's property formation. She also has published recently multiple articles and books on circulations and recycling of textile products.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.11.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 253 p. 42 illus., 21 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Belfast-Dublin railway corridor • Economic corridors • Economic geography of urban networks • Economic history of urban networks • Economics of goods services • Environmental dynamics of networks • Historical economic geography • Historical Geography • History of transport networks • Maritime Economics • Sustainability of goods distribution • Transport and distribution • Transport Economics • Urban Economics • Urban logistic network
• ISBN-10: 3-030-27599-X / 303027599X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-27599-0 / 9783030275990