The West European City International Library of Sociology Series

This is Volume XII of thirteen in a collection on Urban and Regional Sociology. Originally published in 1951, this study gives a geographical interpretation of the Western European city and looks at the towns of central Sweden, towns in France, Switzerland, German and French cities, as well as capital cities Brussels, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, and Paris. A further section includes historic cities, medieval, renaissance and baroque to the growth of the modern urban area.

PREFACE, 1. THE SCOPE AND METHOD OF URBAN GEOGRAPHY, 2. THE TOWNS OF CENTRAL SWEDEN, 3. THE SMALL HISTORIC TOWN IN FRANCE, 4. THE TOWNS OF SWITZERLAND, 5. BASEL: A STUDY IN URBAN GEOGRAPHY, 6. THE STRUCTURE OF THE GERMAN CITY, 7. THE STRUCTURE OF THE FRENCH CITY, 8. BRUSSELS, 9. AMSTERDAM , ROTTERDAM AND THE HAGUE: POPULATION DISTRIBUTION AND TRENDS, 10. VIENNA AND PRAGUE, 11. BUDAPEST AND WARSAW, 12. PARIS, 13. BERLIN, PART TWO, 14. THE NATURE OF THE URBAN HABITAT: FUNCTION AND FORM, 15. THE GROWTH OF THE HISTORIC CITY, 16. THE MEDIEVAL TOWN, 17. TYPES OF HISTORIC TOWN IN WESTERN EUROPE, 18. THE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE TOWN, 19. THE GROWTH OF MODERN URBANISM, 20. THE MODERN URBAN PLAN, 21. THE MODERN URBAN AREA, 22. URBAN ZONES AND URBAN LIMITS, 23. CONCLUSION, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

Robert E. Dickinson