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11. Centrality and Cities

    By James Bird

    Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future. He sees centrality as a mental projection on to space, and discusses the concept in relation to three types of its manifestation in...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
12. City, Region and Regionalism

    A geographical contribution to human ecology

    By Robert E. Dickinson

    This book was first published in 1947....

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
13. Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700

    Edited by Peter Clark, Paul Slack

    This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
14. Planning and Profit in the Urban Economy

    By T.A. Broadbent

    This book was first published in 1977....

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
15. London's Green Belt

    Containment in Practice

    By Richard Munton

    Developed form a major research report for the Department of the Environment, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the problems experienced when the the green belt restraint was implemented around London. Attitudes to land-use planning changed rapidly: planning powers devolved from...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
16. Half a Century of Municipal Decline

    1935-1985

    Edited by Martin Louglin, M. David Gelfand, Ken Young

    Local government passed unscathed through the political and economic upheavals which followed the Great Depression. Contemporary commentators had every reason to look forward to continued growth and expansion in the role of local government, which was seen as the main vehicle for the social...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
17. London United Tramways

    A History 1894-1933

    By Geoffrey Wilson

    With the twentieth century arrived the first electric tramcars in London. Thirty years later the first trolley buses arrived - along with a fleet of new trams that were the most modern of their day. This era was one of rapid change, rich in achievement adn personalities. Among the more colourful of...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
18. Social Process and the City

    Edited by Peter Williams

    Contemporary urban studies engages a wide range of approaches in the analysis of the processes at work in urban areas. These approaches derive from anthropology, economics, geography, history, politics and sociology as well as from the professional experience of town planning and architecture....

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
19. Theatres of Accumulation

    Studies in Asian and Latin American Urbanization

    By Warwick Armstrong, T.G. McGee

    In the great cities of Latin America and Asia, international business and local firms meet and, in particular, influence teh development strategies of Third World countries. The authors of Theatres of Accumulation argue that these cities play a crucial role in the process of capital accumulation...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
20. Education and the City

    Theory, History and Contemporary Practice

    Edited by Gerald Grace

    City schools, especially those attended by working class and ethnic minority pupils are teh catalysts of many significant issues in educational debate and policy making. They bring into sharp focus questions to do with class, gender and race relations in education; concepts of equality of...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge