Originally published in 1988, this book provides a fascinating comparative review of research in urban historical geography in Britain and West Germany. It draws together a wide …
To contemporaries the nineteenth century was ‘the age of great cities’. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be classified as ‘urban’. In the first …
Urbanising Britain brings together the work of some leading British historical geographers of the younger generation to consider nineteenth-century urbanization as a process, …
What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities of this …