Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthetic and visual product, but also the economic, political, and social implications, as well as the environmental impact. This collection of essays explores the question of whether this sort of multifaceted planning took place in the Middle Ages, and how it manifested itself outside of the monastic realm.
Bringing together the monastic historian and archaeologist, with scholars of art and
architecture, this volume expands our comprehension of how those in roles of authority saw the planning process and implemented their plans to structure a particular outcome. The examination of architectural complexes, literary sources, commercial legers, and political records highlights the multiple avenues for viewing the growing awareness of the social potential of an urban environment.
Medieval Urban Planning is a wide-ranging collection of case studies that brings together the work of a group of interdisciplinary scholars in the analysis of the rural monastic organization of space and the civic and religiously inspired planning of urban communities in the period between Ancient Rome and the Renaissance. By exploring the influence of politics,economics, the secular and the sacred on the urban terrain, this collection contributes to a newly emerging view of the many forms that planning and urban design took in the Middle
Ages. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students of urban historyand the preservation of historic cities. Suzanne Strum, PhD, Independent Scholar, Spain.publiarq.com
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