Fire and urban enviroment in early modern cities and towns of Croatian and Slavonian Kingdom
Fire and urban enviroment in early modern cities and towns of Croatian and Slavonian Kingdom

Summary/Abstract: The author describes how great fires were instrumental in the creation of new urban developments in the early modern period. In Zagreb, for instance, very few buildings were made of fireproof materials. Most of the city's buildings were made of timber and rooftops with wooden frames covered with wooden planks, tiles, or straw. Threat of fire afected the spacial disspersion of the population and the construction of new streets with canals, which provided water for extinguishing fires.

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