Nick Green

The Settlement Patterns of Britain (eBook, PDF)

Past, Present and the Future Foretold in Eight Essays

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In eight carefully crafted essays, each focusing on a key period in our island's history, Nick Green explores the origins of Britain's settlement patterns from pre-history to the present day, the lessons that these have for the future and, finally, what that future may hold.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000613438
• Artikelnr.: 63775949

Autorenporträt

Nick Green is a Senior Tutor in the School of Planning and Environmental Management, University of Manchester. He is a member of the Town and Country Planning Association and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements. 0. The Dawning of the Tenth Wave: A Prologue
to the Eight Essays. 1. Of Hillforts and Homesteads: Settlement Patterns in
the Bronze and Iron Ages. 2. See, The Conquering Bureaucrat Comes:
Roman-British Settlement Patterns, c. 150 AD. 3. To Be, Then Not To Be: Th
e Demise of the Hamlet in England, 850-1086. 4. A Small Town in
Gloucestershire: Cirencester and the International Wool Trade. 5. Travels
with Mr Defoe and Some Others: Journeys Through Britain's Pre-Industrial
Settlement Patterns. 6. Towards Hyper-Polycentricity: Or What a Giant
Fungus Can Teach Us About Settlement Patterns. 7. The Uses of Consolatory
Fables: How Computer Models Can Help Us Understand Settlement Patterns. 8.
Biography of an Island Foretold. Bibliography. Index.