British Cities

Author : Nigel Spence,Andrew Gillespie,John Goddard
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Tracey Turner,Andrew Donkin
Publisher : British Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9798887770161

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A History of the World in 25 Cities by Tracey Turner,Andrew Donkin Pdf

A gorgeous, large-format gift hardcover featuring city maps from all over the world, from ancient history to the present day. With a stunning neon cover and packed with countless facts for curious readers to return to again and again, this is a perfect gift for children who want to explore history from around the world. Co-authored by award-winning children's authors Tracey Turner and Andrew Donkin in consultation with specialist curators at the British Museum, readers can visit cities from every inhabited continent on Earth, from the walled city of Jericho built over 10,000 years ago, to the modern-day metropolis of Tokyo, the most-densely populated city in the world today. Featuring vibrant, beautifully detailed artwork from Libby VanderPloeg, each carefully researched map takes readers on a city tour at a unique moment in time--from exploring Athens in ancient Greece during the birth of democracy, to walking the beautiful lamplit streets of medieval Benin, deep in the West African rainforest. Readers can even visit China's long-lost capital city of Xianyang--a city for which no original map exists, which was brought to life with support from the British Museum's fantastic team of experts. Cities featured include Jericho, Memphis, Athens, Xianyang, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Jórvík, Benin City, Tenochtitlán, Granada, Beijing, Venice, Delhi, Cuzco, Amsterdam, Sydney, Paris, London, Bangkok, Saint Petersburg, New York City, Berlin, San Francisco, and Tokyo, plus an exploration of Cities of Today and Cities of Tomorrow.

Author : British Archaeological Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UVA:X030445666

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Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association Pdf

Author : John Hill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118477519

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A Companion to British and Irish Cinema by John Hill Pdf

A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemas British and Irish film studies have expanded in scope and depth in recent years, prompting a growing number of critical debates on how these cinemas are analysed, contextualized, and understood. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema addresses arguments surrounding film historiography, methods of textual analysis, critical judgments, and the social and economic contexts that are central to the study of these cinemas. Twenty-nine essays from many of the most prominent writers in the field examine how British and Irish cinema have been discussed, the concepts and methods used to interpret and understand British and Irish films, and the defining issues and debates at the heart of British and Irish cinema studies. Offering a broad scope of commentary, the Companion explores historical, cultural and aesthetic questions that encompass over a century of British and Irish film studies—from the early years of the silent era to the present-day. Divided into five sections, the Companion discusses the social and cultural forces shaping British and Irish cinema during different periods, the contexts in which films are produced, distributed and exhibited, the genres and styles that have been adopted by British and Irish films, issues of representation and identity, and debates on concepts of national cinema at a time when ideas of what constitutes both ‘British’ and ‘Irish’ cinema are under question. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema is a valuable and timely resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of film, media, and cultural studies, and for those seeking contemporary commentary on the cinemas of Britain and Ireland.

Author : Gavin Stamp
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Brian Robson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351712859

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Managing the City by Brian Robson Pdf

This book, first published in 1987, addresses questions which have gained new importance in the light of the continuing erosion of the economic base and social stability of cities. The recurring riots in inner cities are but the outward manifestation of the profound collapse of the civic societies of our cities. This book addresses three main issues: What has gone wrong? What successes and failures have changes in policy had? And what should be the shape of future urban policy? This book will be interest to students of sociology, urban studies and human geography.

Author : A. Stevens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230275300

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British Historical Fiction before Scott by A. Stevens Pdf

In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.

Author : Roger Swift,Sheridan Gilley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Bill Luckin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780857739773

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Death and Survival in Urban Britain by Bill Luckin Pdf

The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history. Here, the eminent urban historian Bill Luckin re-introduces a body of work which, published together for the first time, along with new material and contextualizing notes, marks the beginning of this important strand of historiography. Luckin charts the spread of cholera, fever and the 'everyday' (but frequently deadly) infections that afflicted the inhabitants of London and its 'new manufacturing districts' between the 1830s and the end of the nineteenth century. A second part - 'Pollution and the Ills of Urban-Industrialism' - concentrates on the water and 'smoke' problems and the ways in which they came to be perceived, defined and finally brought under a degree of control. Death and Survival in Urban Britain explores the layered and interacting narratives within the framework of the urban revolution that transformed British society between 1800 and 1950.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : UCAL:B2974750

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The British Printer by Anonim Pdf

Author : School Committee of the City of Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Schools
ISBN : OSU:32435057124463

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Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston by School Committee of the City of Boston Pdf

Author : Louise Boland
Publisher : Fairlight Books
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781912054534

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Bookshop Tours of Britain by Louise Boland Pdf

Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop. Across 18 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of southwest England, over the mountains of Wales, through England's industrial heartland, up to the Scottish Highlands, and back via Whitby, the Norfolk Broads, central London, the South Downs, and Hardy's Wessex. On their way, the tours visit beaches, castles, head down coal mines, go to whiskey distilleries, bird watching, hiking, canoeing, to stately homes, and the houses of some of Britain's best-loved historic writers—and, last but not least, a host of fantastic bookshops.

Author : Robert Home
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Richard Farnell
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001739104

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Local Planning in Four English Cities by Richard Farnell Pdf

A study of load planning in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and Leicester.

Author : Johns Hopkins University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015024305099

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The Johns Hopkins University Circular by Johns Hopkins University Pdf

Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, registers, announcement material, etc.