Based on a wide variety of government and civic records, this book traces the evolution of the changing nature of city status in Britain through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Industrialization is still the factor that distinguishes the modern world from the past, and advanced countries from undeveloped ones. In this revised..
This book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms of urbanity in contemporary African cities, engaging with issues including colo..
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Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the city since the High Middle Ages, focusing on one of the earliest urbanized reg..
Industrialization is still the factor that distinguishes the modern world from the past, and advanced countries from undeveloped ones. In this revised..
This work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the ec..
Urbanisation in China is based on extensive original research and fieldwork and outlines the pre-communist legacy, while tracing population changes an..
Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view that t..
This volume explores many of the key environmental concerns and issues that are essential to understanding the problems faced by cities in the ninetee..
The early modern period witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe. The Market and the City takes a comparative approach t..