The Settlement Patterns of Britain: Past, Present and the Future Foretold in Eight Essays - Couverture souple

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Green, Nick

 
9780415698740: The Settlement Patterns of Britain: Past, Present and the Future Foretold in Eight Essays
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ISBN 10 : 041569874X ISBN 13 : 9780415698740
Editeur : Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

In writing The Settlement Patterns of Britain Nick Green was inspired by the short story genre. His book is a collection of eight non-fiction short stories or essays, where the characters are the places, some of which appear more than once, usually as bit-part players, occasionally as the main protagonist. Preceded by a prologue describing Britain's prehistory as a European peninsula, each essay covers a fixed period in the history of the development of Britain's settlement patterns, sometimes long, more often quite short, beginning around 2,500 BC and ending about one hundred years in the future.

Nick Green chose those periods that are particularly instructive in revealing how settlement patterns come to exist in the form they do and how they might develop in the future. Settlement patterns are not just about where a place is, but about how that place relates to others. They wax and wane with circumstance, and around each settlement's fixed core, the patterns of living and working shift constantly, driven by forces beyond the control of any individual town or city or village.

From Bronze Age communities to computer simulations, from the mediaeval wool trade to the hyper-networked society, from Viking invasions to the post-industrial era, the essays cover a broad sweep of history. They appear in chronological order, but are not intended to provide a continuous, linear historical narrative - nor do they: each essay is freestanding so they can be read in whatever order the reader prefers.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nick Green is a Senior Tutor in the School of Planning and Environmental Management, University of Manchester. He is a member of the Town and Country Planning Association and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
041569874X
ISBN 13 
9780415698740
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0415698774 ISBN 13 :  9780415698771
Editeur : Routledge, 2022
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