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“mark hewlett”

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  • Urban Focus

    by Mark Hewlett ...
    This project is aimed the 16+ age range inside or outside any kind of educational institution. It is for courses concerned with general education - either in general studies programmes or as aspects of specialist teaching. Narrative has been kept to a minimum. Instead, the books are more a collection of different items of teaching and learning materials: for example, the collection of key concepts ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    The Man Who Brought Down a Taoiseach and Exposed the Greed and Corruption at the Heart of Irish Politics

    by Frank Connolly ...
    A successful property developer in England, the Sligo-born Tom Gilmartin had ambitious plans for major retail developments in Dublin in the late 1980s. Little did he know that in order to do business in the city, senior politicians and public officials would want a slice of the action … in the form of large amounts of cash. Gilmartin blew the whistle on corruption at the heart of government and ... Read more

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  • Medieval London

    by Gwyn A. Williams ...
    This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the English nation. The period covered is the century and a half between 1191 and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Leading themes are the ... Read more

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  • Colonial Urban Development

    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 author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular society, to be understood only in terms of its values, behaviour and institutions and the distribution ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Urban Sociology

    by R.N. Morris ...
    This book offers a coherant theoretical introduction to urban sociology. Based on the urban theory of Louis Wirth, it systematically examines Wirth's principal ideas in the contexts of pre-industrial cities, industrial cities and bureaucracies. Morris discusses conditions for the emergence of cities and for industrialization. He relates organisational and ecological accounts of the city and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cities, Capitalism and Civilization

    by R.J. Holton ...
    Cities, Capitalism and Civilization looks at the character and distinctiveness of Western Civilization. R.J. Holton sets out to challenge the belief that cities and urban social classes have formed the main component of the advance of civilization, and the principle dynamic of Western capitalism.This book was first published in 1986. ... Read more

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  • The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Edited by B.I. Coleman ...
    In nineteenth-century Britain, ahead of the rest of the world in economic development, many towns and cities grew to a size that only London had attained before. This volume focuses on the intellectual and controversial response of the period's leading men and women to the key issues of urbanization and its surrounding social problems.The extracts selected date from 1785 to 1909, and are drawn ... Read more

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  • London United Tramways

    A History 1894-1933

    by Geoffrey Wilson ...
    With the twentieth century arrived the first electric tramcars in London. Thirty years later the first trolley buses arrived - along with a fleet of new trams that were the most modern of their day. This era was one of rapid change, rich in achievement adn personalities. Among the more colourful of the undertakings involved was London United, which introduced the first public service of electric ... Read more

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  • Urban Sociology

    Critical Essays

    Edited by C.G. Pickvance ...
    This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available.This book was first published in 1976. ... Read more

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  • Four years Old in an Urban Community

    by John Newson, Elizabeth Newson ...
    John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce 'a detailed and descriptive study of how parents do in fact treat their children and - equally important - how ... Read more

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  • The Ideal City

    Its Architectural Evolution in Europe

    by Helen Rosenau ...
    The concept of the 'ideal city' is, perhaps, more important today - when planners and architects are so firmly confined by considerations of our immediate environment - than ever before. Yet it is a concept which has profoundly influenced the western world throughout history, both as a regulative model and as an inspiration.Rosenau traces the progress of the concept from biblical sources through ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Dynamics of Urbanism

    by Peter F. Smith ...
    Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century.For further information on this collection please email [email protected]. ... Read more

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