The English Urban Landscape
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 March 2000
- ISBN 9780198601173
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 242x179x23 mm
- Weight 809 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones and line illustrations 0
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Short 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Few books covering historical events in England have been written with such authority, and yet manage to remain so accessible to the uncommitted reader ... mini masterpiece
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Roman Contribution
Decay and Revival: Early Medieval Landscapes
The Medieval Urban Landscape, AD 900-1540
Early Modern Urban Landscapes, 1540-1800
Modern London
Temples of Commerce: Revolutions in Shopping and Banking
The Industrial Town
Transport
Slum and Suburbs: The Persistence of Residential Apartheid
The Pleasures of Urbanity
The Public Face
English Towns in the Creative Imagination
Cameo features: York; Eighteenth-Century London; Fire and the Early Modern Townscape; Aracadian Retreats; The Potteries; A Railway Town - Swindon; The Garden City; The Council Estate Community; Scarborough; The Civic Buildings of Birmingham; The Fictional Detective as Modern Urban Hero
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