Building Jerusalem : The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0141990120
ISBN-13
9780141990125
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 26th, 2019
Print length
624 Pages
Weight
444 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 13.20 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
United Kingdom, Great Britain19th century, c 1800 to c 18991837–1901 (Victorian period)City & town planning - architectural aspectsCity and town planning: architectural aspectsBritish & Irish historyModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900Social & cultural historyUrban communities / city lifeUrban communitiesHistoryEuropean historySocial and cultural historyUrban & municipal planningUrban and municipal planning and policy
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''History writing at its compulsive best'' A. N. Wilson
This is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that fostered Britain''s greatest civic renaissance.
Tristram Hunt explores the horrors of the Victorian city, as seen by Dickens, Engels and Carlyle; the influence of the medieval Gothic ideal of faith, community and order espoused by Pugin and Ruskin; the pride in self-government, identified with the Saxons as opposed to the Normans; the identification with the city republics of the Italian renaissance - commerce, trade and patronage; the change from the civic to the municipal, and greater powers over health, education and housing; and finally at the end of the century, the retreat from the urban to the rural ideal, led by William Morris and the garden-city movement of Ebenezer Howard.
This is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that fostered Britain''s greatest civic renaissance.
Tristram Hunt explores the horrors of the Victorian city, as seen by Dickens, Engels and Carlyle; the influence of the medieval Gothic ideal of faith, community and order espoused by Pugin and Ruskin; the pride in self-government, identified with the Saxons as opposed to the Normans; the identification with the city republics of the Italian renaissance - commerce, trade and patronage; the change from the civic to the municipal, and greater powers over health, education and housing; and finally at the end of the century, the retreat from the urban to the rural ideal, led by William Morris and the garden-city movement of Ebenezer Howard.
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