Title: Investing in the early modern built environment : Europeans, Asians, settlers and indigenous societies /
Authors: Shammas, Carole,
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Architecture History; Buildings Social aspects History.
Abstract: "Today the bulk of tangible wealth around the globe resides in buildings and physical infrastructure rather than moveable goods. This situation was not always the case. Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt to delve into the period’s enhanced architectural investment—its successes, its failures, and the conflicts it provoked. Not just cultural but clear economic and environmental reasons existed for a rejection of the new architectural agenda. Whatever its efficacy or flaws, it ultimately served as a model worldwide for cityscapes and housing well into the twentieth century."--
Contents: 1. The Early Modern Built Environment Globally: The State of the Field / Carole Shammas -- 2. Property in Two Fire Regimes: From Edo to Tokyo / Jordan Sand -- 3. The Impact of Fire and Fire Insurance on Eighteenth-Century English Town Buildings and Populations / Robin Pearson -- 4. Permanence and Impermanence in Housing Provision for the Eighteenth-Century Rural Poor in England / John Broad -- 5. The Architecture of the Spanish Philippines and the Limits of Empire / Kiyoko Yamaguchi -- 6. Shaky Welcome: Seismic Risk and Mission Building on the Pacific Coast 1700-1830 / Steven W. Hackel and Susan E. Hough -- 7. Dwelling Factors: Western Merchant in Canton / Johnathan Farris -- 8. "that fatall spott”: The Rise and Fall – and Rise and Fall Again – of Port Royal Jamaica / Matthew Mulcahy -- 9. Rebuilding the City of Kings: Architecture and Civility in Late- Colonial Lima / Charles Walker -- 10. The Ambition for an All Brick City: Elites, Builders and the Growth of Eighteenth-Century Charleston, South Carolina / Emma Hart -- 11. The Built Landscape and the Conquest of Iroquoia 1750-1820 / Chad Anderson -- 12. The Built Environment of Polynesian and Micronesian Stratified Societies in the Early Contact Period / Ross H. Cordy -- 13. Naked Possession: Building and the Politics of Legitimate Occupancy in Early New South Wales, Australia / Grace Karskens.