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Intro
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Contents
1: Boundary Changes in Europe, 1850-2020. States, Regions and Data Analysis
1.1 Border Changes in Europe
1.1.1 Changes in State Borders
1.1.2 Changes in Regional Boundaries
1.1.2.1 The Rationalist Model
1.1.2.2 The "Historicist" Model
1.2 The Creation of the Digital Map
1.3 Tutorial
Literature
2: Urbanisation
2.1 The Persistence of the City Throughout History
2.2 Defining Urban Space
2.3 Factors That Explain Urban Expansion
2.4 Sources for Population and Border Studies at the Local Level
2.5 A Research Agenda on Urban Growth, Combining Population Growth with Urban Morphology
2.6 Case Study: The Quantification of the Agglomerations
2.7 Tutorial
Bibliography
3: Roads and Waterways: The First Inland Transport Systems and the Subsequent Major Impact of Road Transport
3.1 Considerations Regarding the Historical Relevance of Inland Waterways and Roads and the Absence of an Inter-modal Perspective
3.2 The Historical Development of Inland Waterway and Road Networks in Europe
3.3 The Premonitory Vision of Lewis Mumford Regarding the Negative Consequences of the Massive Use of the Private Motor Vehicle
3.4 Supply-Side Approaches, the Persistence of the Loop Between the Promotion of Motorways and the Car Invading the City
3.5 Tutorial
References
4: The Expansion of Railways in Europe
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Expansion of the Railway in Europe
4.3 Some Selected Literature on Railway History
4.4 Tutorial
Literature
5: Ports and Freight Transport in Europe: A Historical Approach
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Role of Ports in Perspective
5.3 Access and Port Hierarchy in Europe
5.4 Ports and International Trade: The Case of England and Wales
5.5 Ports and the Articulation of the Internal Market: The Case of Spain
5.6 Conclusions and Relation with the Tutorial
Bibliography
6: Analysis of Inequalities Between Territories
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Conceptual Aspects and the Application of Policies That Favour Territorial Rebalancing
6.3 The Debate About Territorial Rebalancing Policies
6.4 The Analysis of Inequalities at the Regional Scale
6.5 New Methods and Alternative Sources for Estimating Economic Inequality and Its Determinants: A Case Study of the Comarca of El Baix Llobregat (Catalonia), 1900-1950
6.5.1 Motivation and Aim
6.5.2 Sources: The Baix Llobregat Demographic Database (BALL)
6.5.3 Methodology
6.5.3.1 Occupational Variables
6.5.3.2 Variables in Personal Tax Data
6.5.3.3 Total Income Imputation
6.5.3.4 Measures of Inequality and Recentered Influence Function Regressions on the Factors That Determine Inequality
6.5.4 Results
6.6 Conclusions
6.7 Tutorial
References
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Contents
1: Boundary Changes in Europe, 1850-2020. States, Regions and Data Analysis
1.1 Border Changes in Europe
1.1.1 Changes in State Borders
1.1.2 Changes in Regional Boundaries
1.1.2.1 The Rationalist Model
1.1.2.2 The "Historicist" Model
1.2 The Creation of the Digital Map
1.3 Tutorial
Literature
2: Urbanisation
2.1 The Persistence of the City Throughout History
2.2 Defining Urban Space
2.3 Factors That Explain Urban Expansion
2.4 Sources for Population and Border Studies at the Local Level
2.5 A Research Agenda on Urban Growth, Combining Population Growth with Urban Morphology
2.6 Case Study: The Quantification of the Agglomerations
2.7 Tutorial
Bibliography
3: Roads and Waterways: The First Inland Transport Systems and the Subsequent Major Impact of Road Transport
3.1 Considerations Regarding the Historical Relevance of Inland Waterways and Roads and the Absence of an Inter-modal Perspective
3.2 The Historical Development of Inland Waterway and Road Networks in Europe
3.3 The Premonitory Vision of Lewis Mumford Regarding the Negative Consequences of the Massive Use of the Private Motor Vehicle
3.4 Supply-Side Approaches, the Persistence of the Loop Between the Promotion of Motorways and the Car Invading the City
3.5 Tutorial
References
4: The Expansion of Railways in Europe
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Expansion of the Railway in Europe
4.3 Some Selected Literature on Railway History
4.4 Tutorial
Literature
5: Ports and Freight Transport in Europe: A Historical Approach
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Role of Ports in Perspective
5.3 Access and Port Hierarchy in Europe
5.4 Ports and International Trade: The Case of England and Wales
5.5 Ports and the Articulation of the Internal Market: The Case of Spain
5.6 Conclusions and Relation with the Tutorial
Bibliography
6: Analysis of Inequalities Between Territories
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Conceptual Aspects and the Application of Policies That Favour Territorial Rebalancing
6.3 The Debate About Territorial Rebalancing Policies
6.4 The Analysis of Inequalities at the Regional Scale
6.5 New Methods and Alternative Sources for Estimating Economic Inequality and Its Determinants: A Case Study of the Comarca of El Baix Llobregat (Catalonia), 1900-1950
6.5.1 Motivation and Aim
6.5.2 Sources: The Baix Llobregat Demographic Database (BALL)
6.5.3 Methodology
6.5.3.1 Occupational Variables
6.5.3.2 Variables in Personal Tax Data
6.5.3.3 Total Income Imputation
6.5.3.4 Measures of Inequality and Recentered Influence Function Regressions on the Factors That Determine Inequality
6.5.4 Results
6.6 Conclusions
6.7 Tutorial
References