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SLATER, T.R.
The built form of western cities
London, 1990, 445 pp. - 82,50 euro

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Dit is een brede historische studie die het belang aantoont van stadsplan-analyse voor de stedelijke aardrijkskunde en historisch onderzoek. In het boek zijn case-studies opgenomen uit Groot-Brittannië, Ierland, de USA, Oostenrijk, Duitsland, Spanje, Italië, Zuid-Afrika en Polen.
This is a wide-ranging historical study of town structure which assesses the value of town-plan analysis for urban geographical and historical research. Case studies are included from Britain, Ireland, USA, Austria, Germany, Spain, Italy, South Africa and Poland.

Table of Contents
  • Part I Introduction
    • Urban morphology in 1990: developments in international co-operation
    • Staring again: recollections of an urban morphologist
  • Part II Town-plan analysis (medieval towns)
    • The role of town-plan analysis in the study of the medieval Irish town
    • English medieval new towns with composite plans: evidence from the Midlands
    • Central place and medieval new town: the origins of Thame
  • Part III Town-plan analysis (industrial cities)
    • The morphological evolution of a 19th century city centre: Lodz, Poland, 1825-1973
    • Town-plan analysis in an American setting: cadastral processes in Boston and Omaha, 1630-1930
    • The making and remaking of Pietermaritzburg: the past, present and future morphology of a South African city
  • Part IV Processes, people and buildings
    • Parallelism and disjunctions: a study in the internal structure of Welsh towns
    • The morphological development of Scottish cities from Georgian to modern times
    • Municipal housing in Vienna between the wars
    • Commercial building development: the agents of change
  • Part V Fringe belts
    • Morphogenesis, fringe-belts and urban size: an exploratory essay
    • The fringe-belt concept in a Spanish context: the case of Lleida
    • An historico-geographical perspective on urban fringe-belt phenomena
  • Part VI Townscape conservation
    • Conservation and the management of historical townscapes
    • Townscape management: ideal and reality
    • Architectural practice and urban morphology
  • Index

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