Britain S Cities

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134774876

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Britain's Cities by Michael Pacione Pdf

Uneven distribution of life is a dominant feature of the city. Major social, economic and spatial divisions are apparent in terms of income and wealth, health, crime, housing, and employment. This text offers an introduction to current processes of urban restructuring, geographies of division and contemporary conditions within the city. The geography of Britain's cities is the outcome of interaction between a host of public and private economic, social and political forces operating at a variety of spatial scales from the global to the local. A deeper understanding of the nature of urban division and of the problems of and prospects for local people and places in urban Britain must be grounded in an appreciation of the structural forces, processes and contextual factors which condition local urban geographies. This book combines structural and local level perspectives to illuminate the complex geography of socio-spatial division within urban Britain. It combines conceptual and empirical analyses from researchers in the field.

Author : Mike Emmerich
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781907994647

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Britain’s Cities, Britain’s Future by Mike Emmerich Pdf

Britain invented the modern industrial city in the nineteenth century. But by the late 20th century most British cities had become basket cases. Today London overshadows the rest of the country, as the UK's only 'world city'. No other large country is anything like as economically and politically centralized. This concentration of power damages Britain's economy and fuels the sense of discontent felt by the millions of people for whom the capital seems like another planet. Yet it is cities that are fuelling economic growth around the world. Mike Emmerich looks at the DNA of cities and how it expresses itself in their institutions, governance, public services, religion and culture. He argues that the UK needs a devolutionary ratchet, allowing major cities the freedom to seek devolution of any area of public spending that is not inherently national in nature (such as defence). Cities should have powers to raise some of their own taxes including business, property and sales based taxes and to increase them. He calls for sustained investment in transport and infrastructure, and also training. An innovation-centric industrial policy would also have an emphasis on the social fabric of cities and - crucially - their institutions.

Author : Nigel Spence,Andrew Gillespie,John Goddard
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483190471

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British Cities by Nigel Spence,Andrew Gillespie,John Goddard Pdf

Urban and Regional Planning Series, Volume 26: British Cities: An Analysis of Urban Change provides an overview of urban change in Britain. The title focuses on the demographic and economic aspects of the British urban system. The text first covers the British urban systems, and then proceeds to tackling population and employment in British cities. Next, the selection deals with the concerns on migration and urban change, such as the migration pattern and the characteristics of migrants. The text also talks about issues in work travel. The last part discusses the British urban systems policy. The book will be of great interest to urban planners, local government officials, economists, and sociologists.

Author : Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0389208884

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The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 by Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley Pdf

This work is a sequel to The Irish Victorian City. As a collection of national and regional studies, it reflected the consensus view of the subject by describing both the degree of the demoralization of the Irish immigrants into Britain for the early and mid-Victorian period, when they figured so largely in the official parliamentary and social reportage of the day; and then, in spite of every obvious difficulty posed by poverty, crime, disease, and prejudice, the positive aspect of the Irish Catholic achievement in the creation of enduring religious and political communities towards the end of the nineteenth century.

Author : Matthew Green
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393635355

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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew Green Pdf

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 A “brilliant London historian” (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before—through its abandoned villages and towns. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training. Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across Britain to explore their haunting and often-beautiful remains, Green transports the reader to these lost towns and cities as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction, and revisit their lingering remains as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers, and mavericks. A stunning and original excavation of Britain’s untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before.

Author : Gavin Stamp
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1845135237

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Britain's Lost Cities by Gavin Stamp Pdf

Two hundred high-quality images of beautiful streets and buildings, destroyed by bombing or planned demolition, bring to life the stories behind Britain's lost urban heritage The destruction meted out on Britain's city center during the 20th century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and brutalist city planners, is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces, and Victorian theaters vanished forever, to be replaced by a gruesome landscape of concrete office blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now architectural historian Gavin Stamp shows exactly what has been lost. Reproduced in this haunting volume are hundreds of city photographs, showing streets and buildings that are gone forever. The accompanying text traces their creation and destruction, remembering the massive campaign to save the Euston Arch, wantonly demolished in 1962, and mourning the loss of lovely medieval Coventry, which was already doomed by the city planners even before German air raids intervened. Alternately fascinating, enraging, and heartbreaking, this is an extraordinary evocation of Britain's architectural past, and a much-needed reminder of the importance of preserving heritage.

Author : Anthony Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134025527

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Britain's New Towns by Anthony Alexander Pdf

The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the most substantial periods of urban development in Britain. The New Towns have often been described as a social experiment; so what has this experiment proved? This book covers the story of how these towns came to be built, how they aged, and the challenges and opportunities they now face as they begin phases of renewal. The new approaches in design throughout their past development reflect changes in society throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. These changes are now at the heart of the challenge of sustainable development. The New Towns provide lessons for social, economic and environmental sustainability. These lessons are of great relevance for the regeneration of twentieth century urbanism and the creation of new urban developments today.

Author : Nicholas J. McCamley
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047737484

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Secret Underground Cities by Nicholas J. McCamley Pdf

History of the vast underground arsenals, factories and bunkers built by the British government during WWII and the new uses found for them.

Author : Robert Home
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135945893

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Of Planting and Planning by Robert Home Pdf

‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’ - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its zenith. Of Planting and Planning explores how Britain used the formation of towns and cities as an instrument of colonial expansion and control throughout the Empire. Beginning with the seventeenth-century plantation of Ulster and ending with decolonization after the Second World War, Robert Home reveals how the British Empire gave rise to many of the biggest cities in the world and how colonial policy and planning had a profound impact on the form and functioning of those cities. This second edition retains the thematic, chronological and interdisciplinary approach of the first, each chapter identifying a key element of colonial town planning. New material and illustrations have been added, incorporating the author's further research since the first edition. Most importantly, Of Planting and Planning remains the only book to cover the whole sweep of British colonial urbanism.

Author : Tristram Hunt
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805093087

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Cities of Empire by Tristram Hunt Pdf

A history of the colonial creation of the city is told through the stories of 10 influential urban centers left in the wake of the British Empire, drawing on historical scholarship, cultural criticism and personal reportage to trace the rise of such cities as Boston, Hong Kong and New Delhi.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015023711222

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British Humanities Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : PSU:000064372730

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Nation's Cities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mike Emmerich
Publisher : London School of Economics and Political Science
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1907994629

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Britain's Cities, Britain's Future by Mike Emmerich Pdf

Why did Britain's cities, once the engines of the industrial revolution, decline so severely? What needs to be done if our cities are once again to be the drivers of our economy? This book answers these questions, looking at the lessons of the last two hundred years. .

Author : British Archaeological Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UVA:X030445666

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Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association Pdf

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1450 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015079755826

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf