1. Galleons and Caravans Nodes, Ports and Cities

2. What are the largest world cities today?
Tokyo – 38 million
Delhi – 25 million
Mexico city, Mumbai and Sao Paulo – 21 million
Osaka – 20 million
Beijing – 20 million
NY – 18.5 million
London – 8,400

3. Outline of the lecture:
Theory
Derived mostly from European urban history. – look especially at Jan de Vries’s European Urbanization (1984)
Europe’s great cities – an early city state - Venice
The example of Amsterdam
European colonial cities - Batavia
Islamic cities
The example of Istanbul
Other Asian cities – Edo

4. Theory 4.1 Wallerstein, Braudel, de Vries
Jan de Vries - European Urbanization (1984)
regional contexts for cities
networks and systems of cities
the growth of Europe’s single urban core
see history of urbanization in early modern era as dismantling of an old urban structure -

5. 2. Europe’s great cities
only 4 cities with popls over 100, were ten
- London and Paris had pops. Of over 500,000; Naples had 300,000 and Amsterdam - 200,000
& by most were capitals - 5 were also ports
the Italian city-states were the urban leaders of the medieval world
Venice

6. Venice

8. 17thC. Urban growth
new growth of growth of 9 cities - all capitals accounted for a third of increase in total urban pop. - Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome and Vienna
in 17thC. - Amsterdam, London & Paris respons. For 40% of all growth in urban pop. In Europe as a whole

9. Amsterdam
a fishing village till 1200; its population rose from 50,000 in 1600 to 200,000 in 1700 – was a melting pot; a port of 5,000 ships annually.
Population Growth and Minorities
Trade, Finance and Consumerism

11. Colonial Cities European encounter with Asia: fort or factory.
Batavia in 1700 – pop. 50,000 – 100,
1625 – Goa – c. 100, – only 2,000
-Calcutta – 12,000 in 1710 – to 120,000 by 1750
Manila – founded in 1571 by 1810 pop. 100,000
by 1700 Asia (not counting the Middle East) contained 55 cities with pops. of more than 100,000 – more than 100 with pops. of ,000

12. Batavia
1619 – J.P. Coen conquered W. Java – kingdom of Jayakarta – build new headquarters of the VOCin asia – called Batavia
Built from scratch in the tropics

14. 5. Islamic Cities Types of Islamic City camp or ‘tented cities’
Isfahan
Islam and urbanism
Place of the mosque
Residential buildings
Physical structure of Islamic cities

16. Istanbul Capture of Constantinople in 1453; pop. 40,000
It became Istanbul – population by 1550s 500,000. Capital of the Ottoman Empire till 1922

19. Edo emerged as the new seat of the Tokugawa Shogunate, under Ieyasu.
Edo became a military centre, and a centre of commerce and trade
the Emperor still lived in Kyoto