Tracking Waters: Small Cities Transport Network of Early Modern Friesland

Miki Sugiura ()
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Miki Sugiura: Hosei University

Chapter Chapter 12 in The Urban Logistic Network, 2019, pp 225-248 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract How small cities could maintain themselves, or how a region sustains a polycentric structure are questions that are crucially connected with the operation of the urban logistics networks. Focusing on Friesland in the early modern Dutch Republic, this chapter clarifies the misleading views transport network models and mappings often provide. The chapter emphasizes the importance of the natural water environment to be included in the model and demonstrates greater agency for small cities to form their transport networks separately. Operations of transport networks are demonstrated from the users’ perspectives by tracking five generations of one family’s utilization of the city canal.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27599-0_12

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