Download or read book Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500 written by Henk Schmal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981, Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500 examines urbanisation in Europe since 1500, paying particular attention to the underlying factors which govern the differentiated process of urbanisation. The book goes on to formulate some of the ways in which these factors can be generalised in an attempt to delineate the process of urbanisation in theoretic terms.