TY - BOOK ID - 319449 TI - Cities at war in early modern Europe PY - 2010 SN - 9780521113441 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Environmental planning KW - History of Europe KW - Polemology KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - Cities and towns KW - City and town life KW - City planning KW - Military planning KW - Fortification KW - Architecture KW - Siege warfare KW - War and society KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - Europe KW - History, Military KW - Society and war KW - War KW - Sociology KW - Civilians in war KW - Sociology, Military KW - Attack and defense (Military science) KW - Fortifications, Attack and defense of KW - Fortress warfare KW - Siege craft KW - Siegecraft KW - Military art and science KW - Military engineering KW - Intrenchments KW - War planning KW - Military administration KW - Military policy KW - Planning KW - Fortification, Primitive KW - Forts KW - History KW - Social aspects&delete& KW - Architecture militaire KW - Urbanisme KW - Fortifications KW - 1500-1800 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:319449 AB - "Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its regular bastions, redefined the identity of the early modern city. Military planning also generated new forms of urban spaces, such as the orderly grid, the tree-lined avenue, the great central square dominated by triumphal sculpture, and the greenbelt that provided clear boundaries and controlled viewpoints. In The city at war in early modern Europe, Martha Pollak offers a pan-European, richly illustrated study of early modern military urbanism, an international style of urban design characterized by uniformity, geometrical clarity, architectural economy, and unadorned monumentality. Pollak examines this new urbanism as visualized by engravers, painters, and cartographers in accurate plans and powerful panoramic views. Her comparative, transnational study ranges from Britain to the Ottoman Empire, and from Malta to Scandinavia, and focuses on major centers--Naples, Paris, Antwerp, Stockholm--and "fortress cities" such as Valletta and Palmanova, which are still defined by their immense, geometrically perfect fortifications"--Provided by publisher. ER -