Projektbeschreibung
Neue Erkenntnisse zum Wachstum der Stadt München im 19. Jahrhundert
München sah sich wie viele andere Industriemetropolen des 19. Jahrhunderts mit neuen Technologien, der Integration neuer Immigrierender und der Gefahr von Epidemien konfrontiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird das ERC-finanzierte Projekt CityRising untersuchen, wie München mit den Folgen eines technologischen Schocks wie der Einführung der Massenverkehrsmittel umging. Es wird auch aufzeigen, inwieweit Berufszweige und Unternehmen unterschiedlichen Agglomerationskräften unterlagen. Das Projekt wird außerdem beleuchten, wie die Mitglieder einer lange ausgegrenzten jüdischen Gemeinde in die wachsende Stadt integriert wurden und wie sie in die Ränge der gebildeten oberen Mittelschicht aufstiegen. Darüber hinaus wird die Gesundheitsversorgung der Stadt etwa durch sanitäre Anlagen untersucht.
Ziel
The rising industrial metropolises of the 19th century faced a series of timeless challenges: the disruptive effects of new technologies, the integration of new immigrants, the threat of epidemics. In this project we study, with the use of novel, high-quality, high-frequency individual-level archival data, how the city of Munich dealt with these challenges and provided opportunities for economic and social mobility to its dwellers, in the period 1823-1914. Our study is composed of three parts. In Part 1, we study the consequences of a technological shock — the introduction of mass transportation — on the spatial structure of the city. We show how occupations and businesses were subject to differential agglomeration forces, and document the reorganization of economic activity and residents across space. Using schooling data, we study the impact of this reorganization on social mobility. In Part 2, we study how members of a long marginalized ethnic group — Jews — were integrated into the growing city, and how they rose to ranks of the educated upper middle classes. We study the initial conditions that determined their occupational specialization and eventual success: place of origin, religious current, residential segregation, human capital of ancestors. We also study assimilation strategies and identity choices, as evidenced by first name choices, human capital investments, and intermarriage. In Part 3, we study how the provision of a core health amenity — sanitation — reshaped the social geography of the city. We analyze its consequences on child mortality, fertility choices, and human capital investments using linked individual data, and consider the confounding role of spatial sorting in this process. We expect our research to unify hitherto disparate literatures (in economic history, urban economics, political economy, and social mobility), and to demonstrate the feasibility of collecting large-scale, individual-level data from European history.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
Schlüsselbegriffe
Programm/Programme
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thema/Themen
Finanzierungsplan
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsGastgebende Einrichtung
80539 MUNCHEN
Deutschland