The English Urban Landscape

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-860117-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 809 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waller, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: The Roman Contribution

- 2: Decay and Revival: Early Medieval Landscapes

- 3: The Medieval Urban Landscape, AD 900-1540

- 4: Early Modern Urban Landscapes, 1540-1800

- 5: Modern London

- 6: Temples of Commerce: Revolutions in Shopping and Banking

- 7: The Industrial Town

- 8: Transport

- 9: Slum and Suburbs: The Persistence of Residential Apartheid

- 10: The Pleasures of Urbanity

- 11: The Public Face

- 12: 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

- bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Philip Waller is Senior Tutor at Merton College, Oxford. He is widely respected in the field of urban history.