The “South-Italian City” — a cultural-genetic type of city
The “South-Italian city” is characterized at four different levels as an independent cultural-genetic city-type:1.The characteristics arrangement of the functional areas and the residential areas of different social groups is represented in a model.2.From the model, developments and changes in the arrangement of the functional areas can be identified which clearly deviate from those which are derived from the universal city model.3.Some of the structural individuality can be directly explained by the peculiar features of the respective social and economic history.4.Some of the special features must, however, be traced back to a wider historico-cultural background. Through this run processes which flow through the universal city development in similar forms, to the deviating structure of the “South-Italian city”.
The persistence of palazzi and intra-urban structures in Tuscany and Sicily
Abstract The persistence of old buildings in historic town centres raises important questions for urban geographers. Do they obstruct changes in function dictated by economic forces? Are they redeveloped when the capital invested in them has been amortized? Can descendants of the original owners afford to live in them, maintain them in good repair and adopt them to new uses? Are new owners willing to take them over, preserve their appearance and find profitable uses for them? A study of palazzi in Florence and Catania discusses differences in the changing utilization of former upper-class residences. In Florence a large number of palazzi built by merchants in the pre-industrial period have persisted in the present town centre. While many are still lived in by upper-class families, most have added new central urban functions. In Florence palazzi retain a dominant role in the intra-urban structure. In Catania palazzi built by feudal landowners have been abandoned by upper-class occupants and have failed to attract high-ranking urban functions. The historic town centre has decayed while central functions have moved to expensive modern buildings mostly situated on the outskirts. Different economic ideas and attitudes held by the upper classes in Tuscany and in Sicily account for contrasts in the roles of palazzi in the two towns.
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America: Acknowledgments
Introduction: re-examining the roots of Anglo-American political thought Part I. The Divine Right Challenge to Natural Liberty: 1. The attack on the Catholic natural law 2. Calvinism and parliamentary resistance theory 3. The problem of Grotius and Hobbes Part II. The Whig Politics of Liberty in England: 4. James Tyrrell: the voice of moderate Whiggism 5. The Pufendorfian movement: moderate Whig sovereignty theory 6. Algernon Sidney and the old Republicanisms 7. A new Republican England 8. Natural rights in Locke's two treatises 9. Lockean liberal constitutionalism 10. The glorious revolution and the catonic response Part III. The Whig Legacy in America: 12. British constitutionalism and the challenge of empire 13. Thomas Jefferson and the radical theory of empire 14. Tom Paine and popular sovereignty 15. Revolutionary constitutionalism: laboratories of radical Whiggism Conclusions Notes Bibliography.