Investing in the early modern built environment
Subtitle: Europeans, Asians, settlers and indigenous societies
By: edited by Carole Shammas
Series: European expansion and indigenous response -- v. 11
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9789004231160; 9789004231191
Subjects: Buildings; Architecture; History
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.