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THE ENGLISH URBAN LANDSCAPE
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| By: |
Philip Waller (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£20.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198601174 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198601173 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 March, 2000 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
A compact and authoritative historical survey of the way English urban environments have developed since the Roman period, viewed chronologically and thematically, focusing particularly on the last two centuries. The text covers types of urban development (eg industrial towns, commercial cities, slums, suburbs etc), plus important topics such as transport, recreation, civil and ecclesiastical functions, and images of the town and city in literature, art, and film.The chapters are supplemented by cameos that focus in detail on specific towns and subjects. |
| Synopsis: |
A volume on the history of the English urban environment that will appeal to both general readers and academic specialists. The emphasis throughout is emphatically that of the historian, rather than the physical geographer: that is, a primary focus on the people who make the landscapes, the changing social structure of the communities, and the different economies which sustained them. The text is enhanced by 130 integrated illustrations, including half-tones and diagrams. The thirteen chapters combine chronological and thematic surveys. After a general introduction by Dr Waller, chapters 2-5 provide overviews of how the urban landscape in England developed during the Roman period, the Early Medieval period, the Medieval period, and the Early Modern Period. The second, larger part of the text offers a variety of thematic approaches to the history of the built environment, with a focus on the last two centuries: metropolitanism, the commercial city, the industrial city, transport, slums and suburbs, recreation, civil and ecclesiastical, and artistic and literary.In addition there are a number of cameo features throughout the text, eg on a small market town, a garden city, a council estate, the Potteries. There is a list of further reading on each chapter. |
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numerous halftones and line illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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