Growth and Shape of the Pre-industrial City

Pablo Guillen; Urša Komac

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-5741-5_6

Growth and Shape of the Pre-industrial City

Pablo Guillen, Urša Komac

School of Engineering, Design & Built Environment

University of Sydney

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Abstract

We analyse the growth and shape of the pre-industrial city as a result of the transportation technology available before the mechanisation of transport. Such city is constrained in size by walking speed. Because of the need of minimising transportation time or cost it has, necessarily, one centre and is fairly dense. The location of pre-industrial cities was also often determined by access to water-based transportation. We point out to New York and Venice as two examples of cities already preeminent before the mechanisation of transport. New York adapted to the new technology, but that is not the case for Venice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
Publisher	Springer
Pages	17-18
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5741-5_6
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Name	SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
ISSN (Print)	2199-580X
ISSN (Electronic)	2199-5818

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Keywords

Pre-industrial growth
Technology
Transportation

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