Abstract

Introduction 1. The Roman Contribution 2. Decay and Revival: Early Medieval Landscapes 3. The Medieval Urban Landscape, AD 900-1540 4. Early Modern Urban Landscapes, 1540-1800 5. Modern London 6. Temples of Commerce: Revolutions in Shopping and Banking 7. The Industrial Town 8. Transport 9. Slum and Suburbs: The Persistence of Residential Apartheid 10. The Pleasures of Urbanity 11. The Public Face 12. English Towns in the Creative Imagination Cameo features: York Eighteenth-Century London Fire and the Early Modern Townscape Aracadian Retreats The Potteries A Railway Town - Swindon The Garden City The Council Estate Community Scarborough The Civic Buildings of Birmingham The Fictional Detective as Modern Urban Hero bibliography

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