Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and how gender was implicated and imbricated in those changes.

Introduction 1. Absolutism and Enlightenment: Urban Belonging 2. Urban Economies 3. Civic identity and Governance 4. Places and Spaces 5. Bourgeois Century: Shifting Parameters, Shifting Meanings 6. The Transformative Urban Economy 7. Politics and Civic identity 8. Shaping Towns 9. Streets, Sociability and Consuming the Town 10. Re-imaging the City in the Twentieth Century 11. Civic Impulses 12. Work in the modern town 13. Living in Towns 14. Navigating Urban spaces 15. Coda: Imagining the Town, Past and Present

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor, emerita, at the University of Southern Denmark, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Visiting Professor in Cultural History, University of Turku, author of A History of European Women's Work and Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook, and General Editor of Routledge History Handbook on Gender and the Urban Experience.