Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The Roman Contribution
2: Decay and Revival: Early Medieval Landscapes
3: The Medieval Urban Landscape, AD 900-1540
4: Early Modern Urban Landscapes, 1540-1800
5: Modern London
6: Temples of Commerce: Revolutions in Shopping and Banking
7: The Industrial Town
8: Transport
9: Slum and Suburbs: The Persistence of Residential Apartheid
10: The Pleasures of Urbanity
11: The Public Face
12: English Towns in the Creative Imagination
Cameo features: York; Eighteenth-Century London; Fire and the Early Modern Townscape; Aracadian Retreats; The Potteries; A Railway Town - Swindon; The Garden City; The Council Estate Community; Scarborough; The Civic Buildings of Birmingham; The Fictional Detective as Modern Urban Hero
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About the Author

Dr Philip Waller is Senior Tutor at Merton College, Oxford. He is widely respected in the field of urban history.

Reviews

`Few books covering historical events in England have been written with such authority, and yet manage to remain so accessible to the uncommitted reader ... mini masterpiece'
Somerset Magazine, June 2000