The Urban Logistic Network Cities, Transport and Distribution in Europe from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

1. Introduction.- 2. Gateway of Gothenburg.- 3. Bordeaux from Its Vineyards to Its Hinterland: A Regional Capital in the Late Middle Ages.- 4. Urban Networks on the Move: The Austrian Netherlands’ Transit Policy and the Development of the Belgian Urban Networks in the 18^th Century (1705-1793).- 5. Persistence and Evolution in the Eastern Sicilian Coastal Corridor: The Mobility of Goods and People at the Port of Catania (1817-1860).- 6. Bridging the Gap: The Belfast-Dublin Railway Corridor in the 19^th Century.- 7. Urban Network and Economic Policy: The Milanese Case during the Spanish and Austrian Age.- 8. The Construction of an Inland Gateway: Milan in the Early Modern Period.- 9. Gateways as Intermodal Nodes in Different Ages: The Venetian Region, 18^th to 20^th Centuries.- 10. The Flaxseed Trade between Courland and Brittany in the 18^th Century.- 11. Ports and Their Functions: Some Reflections about Preindustrial Logistics.- 12. Tracking Waters: Small Cities Transport Network of Early Modern Friesland.

Giovanni Favero is Professor of Economic History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, in the Department of Management. In 2018-19 he was the Thomas K. McCraw Visiting Fellow in US Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on organisational history in a long term perspective.

Michael-W. Serruys is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Fellow at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France. In recent years his main focus lay on 18^th century Belgian economic, maritime and transport history. As a MSCA Fellow he now researches the societal effects of environmental crisis, like the shipworm epidemic in 18^th century Western Europe.

Miki Sugiura is Professor of Global Economic History at the Faculty of Economics of Hosei University, Japan. Currently (2018-2020) she is Visiting Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include historyof distribution and trade organizations, urban formation and women’s property formation. She also has published recently multiple articles and books on circulations and recycling of textile products.