Urban historical geography: recent progress in Britain and Germany

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List of figures List of tables List of contributors 1. Introduction Dietrich Deneke and Gareth Shaw Part I. Recent Trends in Urban Historical Geography: 2. Research in British urban historical geography Richard Dennis and Hugh Prince 3. Research in German urban historical geography Dietrich Denecke Part II. The Evolution of Urban Settlement and the Development of the Medieval Town: 4. The town in the Norman colonisations of the British Isles Brian Graham 5. Urban archaeological research in Germany: a regional review of medieval topographic development Hans Stephan 6. Recent development in early medieval urban history and archaeology in England Chris Dyer 7. Urban archaeology in Germany and the study of topographic, functional and social structures Heiko Steuer 8. English medieval town planning Terry Slater Part III. Social Areas and Social Patterns: 9. Economy and society in eighteenth-century English towns: Bristol in the 1770s Elizabeth Baigent 10. Social status and place of residence in preindustrial German towns: recent studies in social topography Dietrich Deneke 11. The economic and social spatial structure of an early industrial town: Aachen Claudia Erdman 12. The social geography of nineteenth-century British cities: a review Colin Pooley and Richard Lawton 13. Patrician urban landlords: research on patronal relations in nineteenth-century 'estate-towns' in the British Isles Lindsay Proudfoot Part IV. Urban Functional Change: 14. The development of urban centrality in England and Wales Harold Carter 15. The persistence and dynamics of office functions in West German cities since the late nineteenth century Heinz Heineberg and Norbert DeLang 16. Recent research on the commercial structure of nineteenth-century British cities Gareth Shaw Part V. Urban Morphology and the Historicity of Townscape: 17. Morphogenesis, morphological regions and secular human agency in the historic townscape, as exemplified by Ludlow M. R. G. Conzen 18. The metrological analysis of early modern planned towns Jurgen Lafrenz 19. Recent developments in urban morphology Jeremy Whitehand 20. Historical geography and conservation planning in British towns Terry Slater and Gareth Shaw Part VI. Conclusions: 21. Future developments in Anglo-German studies of urban historical geography Dietrich Deneke and Gareth Shaw Index.