Residential Segregation from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from the Netherlands

Author:

Lesger Clé1,Van Leeuwen Marco H. D.2

Affiliation:

1. Clé Lesger is Associate Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Amsterdam. He is the author of The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c.1550–1630 (Aldershot, 2006); “Patterns of Retail Location and Urban Form in Amsterdam in the Eighteenth Century,” Urban History, XXXVIII (2011), 24–47.

2. Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen is Professor of Historical Sociology, Utrecht University. He is the author of “Social Inequality and Mobility in History,” Continuity and Change, XXIV (2009), 399–419; with Ineke Maas, HISCLASS: A Historical Social Class Scheme (Leuven, 2011).

Abstract

A case study of three early modern Dutch cities (Alkmaar, Delft, and Amsterdam) using geographical information systems and confronting earlier historical, sociological, and geographical models finds clear patterns of segregation below the level of the city block, thus necessitating block-face mapping. The remarkable continuity in patterns of residential segregation is best explained by the workings of the real-estate market, allowing the well-to-do and middle classes to realize their preferences. In Amsterdam, the merchant elites were able to use their political dominance to plan a scenic and expansive residential environment free from noisy and odorous activities.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,History,History and Philosophy of Science,History

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