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…

Jack Rose examines the social, economic and political forces which have shaped the towns and cities of the UK since the Industrial Revolution.

The unrestricted and…

Both the great cities studied in this book are renowned for their imposing streets and buildings, their cultural and political vitality and their cosmopolitan lifestyles,…

The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life,…

This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available.

This book was first published…

In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from…

Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant…

Much of the theoretical literature in planning and human geography at present is materialist in perspective. This offers a powerful critique but locates the dynamics…