By Constantine McLaughlin Green

The rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this sophisticated and witty appraisal...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41805-8 (Routledge)

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The Social Framework of Planning

By J.B. Cullingworth

This book provides a wide-ranging review of urban problems and constitutes a major contribution to the mounting public debate that these problems are attracting. Many...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41808-9 (Routledge)

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Edited by P.N. Troy

Equity in the City is a collection of nine studies of the way the results of public investment in urban services are shared out among...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41809-6 (Routledge)

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A Choice Between Alternatives

By John N. Jackson

Urbanization, everywhere, is of pressing concern to society. It is now appreciated that politicies for urban growth cannot be confined to the cities themselves, but...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41812-6 (Routledge)

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By John R. Kellett

The arrival of the railway was one of the most far reaching events in the history of the Victorian city. The present study, based upon...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41813-3 (Routledge)

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Culture, Social Power and Environment

By Anthony D. King

The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this.

The...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41814-0 (Routledge)

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By J.A. Yelling

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41816-4 (Routledge)

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A History of London's Tube Railways

By Alan A. Jackson, Desmond F. Croome

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41817-1 (Routledge)

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The Nineteenth Century

By T.C. Barker, Michael Robbins

This is not merely the story of the origins of the world's largest urban passenger transport system: it is also, as it must be, the...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41820-1 (Routledge)

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By J.R. Mellor

Focusing on urban sociology as practised in Britain, the author argues that it is a key element in the response of the 'intellectual proletariat' to...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41822-5 (Routledge)

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