New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500

Simon Gunn is Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester. Tom Hulme is Lecturer in the School of Anthropology, History, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University, Belfast.

• Introduction: Unravelling Urban Governance Part I: Elites, Institutions, and Civil Society 1. Reassessing Power and Governance in Late Medieval Cities: Institutions and the Cursus Honorum 2. Urban Governance and Prison Building in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1820–1845 3. Governing Taste: Fin-de-SieÌcle Cracow, Its Museums and the Urban Elite in the Shaping of the Modern Metropolis Part II: Behaviour and the Governing of Morality 4. Governing Sexuality: Regulating Prostitution in Early Modern Europe 5. Negotiating Urban Governance: Norm Entrepreneurs in Dutch Cities, 1850–1900 Part III: Urban Rituals and the Performance of Power 6. The St Francis Housing Project: Rituals, Symbols and Discourses in Housing Policies in Rome After the Second World War 7. Post-War Urban Pageants in Finland: Performance, Participation and Power Part IV: Governmentality and the State 8. The Foundation of St Petersburg as a Variation upon Foucault’s Governmentality: The Russian Service City, 1703–1740 9. Urban Materialities: Citizenship, Public Housing and Governance in Modern Britain 10. "A Community Not Our Own": Urban Enclosure and Spatial Governmentality Under Fascism Part V: Beyond Foucault: New Narratives for Urban Governance 11. Urban Individuality and Urban Governance in Twentieth-Century Europe 12. Heterodoxies: New Approaches to Power and Agency in the Modern City