Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England
is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world …

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 …

This is the most detailed description of why the countryside of England now looks the way it
does, covering the geology, archaeology and history of each area and what effects each has …

In 1839, the author of the guidebook Manchester As It Is observed that 'wherever a country
becomes populous, nature is always compelled to give way to the convenience or the …

This book is the first major study of the rural-urban interface in the London area in the long
eighteenth century. It proposes that a conception of a 'Greater London'existed in the long …

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Introduction... we in England once showed a natural genius-the genius of creating towns that
nearly always have had a whole character; that generally have had pleasantness and …

This original and innovative book examines a period in with the development of London was
perhaps at its most intense, for in the opening decades of the nineteenth century a concerted …

The Garden City Movement provided a radical new model for the design and layout of
housing at the turn of the nineteenth century and set standards for the twentieth century …