The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities

by Brian Ladd

Book Overview

A multi-sensory urban history of Europe's bustling streets.

Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and commuting framed daily life. At its heyday in the 1800s, the European street was the place where social worlds connected and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022684014X
• ISBN13: 9780226840147
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"