Urban Dominance and Labour Market Differentiation of a European Capital City

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Pedro Telhado Pereira, Maria Eugénia Mata

   Pages 1-6

3. Portuguese Urban System: 1890–1991

   • Ana Bela Nunes

   Pages 7-47

4. Population and Urban Density: Lisbon in the 19th and 20th Centuries

   • Luís Baptista, Teresa Rodrigues

   Pages 49-74

5. Lisbon: Social Differentiation and the Formation of Labour Markets

   • Maria Ioannis Baganha, Maria Margarida Marques

   Pages 75-122

6. Lisbon / Oporto Rivalry in the 19th and 20th Centuries

   • Maria Eugénia Mata

   Pages 123-150

7. Two Capitals on the Periphery: Lisbon and Dublin in 1981

   • Pedro Telhado Pereira

   Pages 151-172

8. A Century of Urbanization in Portugal and Europe: Some International Comparisons

   • Maria Eugénia Mata, Pedro Telhado Pereira

   Pages 173-186

9. Back Matter

   Pages 187-194

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There has been a tremendous explosion of interest in European urban history in the last decades. Across Europe we see a spate of new research projects and publications examining the economic, demographic, social and cultural devel­ opments of the many thousands of urban centres -metropolitan cities, regional cities and small towns. This is hardly surprising because urban development has been one of the principal forces shaping the transformation of Europe from the Renaissance to the contemporary era. One striking feature of the new work is its strongly interdisciplinary character with economists, archaeologists, geographers, art historians and sociologists, as well as historians, collaborating in research. Another feature of current approaches is the stress on comparative urban history -using the variable pat­ terns of development in different countries to shed light not only on structural variations but on the process of urban change itself. Testifying to this enthusiasm for comparative history since 1990 the European Association of Urban Historians (instituted by the European Union) has organ­ ised large -scale comparative conferences on the European city at Amsterdam, Strasbourg and Budapest. Since the 1980s there has also been a network of Eu­ ropean institutions (including the universities of Leicester, New University of Lisbon, Leiden, Cantabria, Humboldt University, Berlin, and Strasbourg, Gent and Leuven) actively involved in student teaching programmes in the fiel- with support from the European Union ERASMUS programme.

• Economic Development
• development
• labour market
• population
• urbanization

• Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

  Pedro Telhado Pereira, Maria Eugénia Mata

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