The English urban landscape /

The English urban landscape / edited by Philip Waller.

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"In this historical survey of English urban landscapes, 15 historians explore the development and significance of our towns and cities. The opening chapters provide an overview of human settlements from Roman times to 1800, and the rest of the book is devoted to the massive urbanization of the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Waller, P. J. (Philip J.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > England > History.
Urbanization > England > History.
Landscape changes > England > History.
Geographical perception > England > History.
Stadt > Grossbritannien > Geschichte.
Stadtentwicklung > Grossbritannien > Geschichte.
Verstädterung > Grossbritannien.
Table of Contents:
  • The Roman contribution / David Shotter
  • Decay and revival : early medieval urban landscapes / David A. Hinton
  • The medieval urban landscape, AD 900-1540 / Derek Keene
  • Early modern urban landscapes, 1540-1800 / Peter Borsay
  • Modern London / John Davis
  • Temples of commerce : revolutions in shopping and banking / Michael Winstanley
  • The industrial town / R.J. Morris
  • Transport / John Armstrong
  • Slums and suburbs : the persistence of residential apartheid / Richard Rodger
  • The pleasures of urbanity / John Walton
  • The public face / Geoffrey Tyack
  • English towns in the creative imagination / Stana Nenadic.

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