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050			_aHT 169 .B87 1971
100			_aBurke, Gerald L. _eauthor
245		0	_aTowns in the making / _cby Gerald Burke
260			_aLondon, United Kingdom : _bEdward Arnold, _cc1971
300			_axi, 193 pages : _billustrations, facsims, maps, plans ; _c26 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505			_a1. Introduction: relevance of study of towns in perspective -- 2. Prehistory: bronze-age and iron-age settlement -- 3. Classical: greek and roman towns and countryside -- 4. Medieval: organic and planned towns; feudal and manorial development in town and countryside -- 5. Renaissance: in western Europe; mercantilism, colonisation, expansion, fortification; international trade and transport routes; influence of Renaissance architects, philosophers and military engineers on town design; ideal cities and town improvement -- 6. Renaissance Britain: rise of towns. Inigo Jones and Wren; town planning and estate development in Georgian and Recency eras. Eighteenth-century countryside: agrarian revolution and parks and garden planning; inventions and industrial development; national transport routes -- 7. Industrial Britain: industrial revolution, transport revolution, rises in population; effects on urban growth and formation of slums; reformers and Utopianss; model communities; industrial villages, garden cities; town improvement in later nineteenth-century countryside -- 8. Twentieth-century Britain: evolution of modern town planning control and legislation; effects of two world wars; New Towns, expanded towns; town improvement -- 9. Conclusions: observations and afterthoughts -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aThis book is not for specialists but for students, and not for students of history but of town-planning and town-building. It attempts a review of town formation from earliest settlements until the present, high-lighting physical achievements rather than the political, economic or social circumstances in which they were realised. Study of so broad a subject as town-making, embodying, as it does, aspects of so many related disciplines as architecture, estate management, municipal engineering, sociology, geography and law, leaves a little opportunity for close study of historical aspects. The present study, set in a world-wide background and following a tenuous thread of developments over some sixty centuries, cannot begin to be comprehensive. It examines phases and achievements of town-building in history which have relevance, and offer inspiration, precept or warning, for towns of today and to tomorrow. It skims over remote river-valley civilizations of 5000 B.C., glances at classical Greece and Rome, stays a while in the medieval environment (since much of medieval origin is still with us) and a little longer in stimulating Renaissance of urban western Europe. Thence the breath of prospect narrows and the depth of investigation increases for Britain of the eighteeth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
650			_aCity planning - Great Britain
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