Urban Historical Geography
Recent Progress in Britain and Germany

This 1988 book provides a comparative review of research in urban historical geography in Britain and West Germany.

Dietrich Denecke (Edited by), Gareth Shaw (Author)

9780521189743, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 March 2011

422 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.62 kg

Originally published in 1988, this book provides a fascinating comparative review of research in urban historical geography in Britain and West Germany. It draws together a wide range of material on the history of urban development to explore the theoretical and methodological possibilities offered by comparative surveys of contrasting national and regional urban expenses. The chronological focus of the essays ranges in time from the medieval period onwards, and the contributors explore not only the specifically intellectual consequences of their empirical research, but also its policy implications for urban planners and conservationists. Serious extended comparative debate has hitherto been absent from the field of urban historical geography as a whole: this volume sought to reverse that trend, and in so doing to establish a fresh research agenda for an important and expanding discipline.

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
1. Introduction Dietrich Deneke and Gareth Shaw
Part I. Recent Trends in Urban Historical Geography: 2. Research in British urban historical geography Richard Dennis and Hugh Prince
3. Research in German urban historical geography Dietrich Denecke
Part II. The Evolution of Urban Settlement and the Development of the Medieval Town: 4. The town in the Norman colonisations of the British Isles Brian Graham
5. Urban archaeological research in Germany: a regional review of medieval topographic development Hans Stephan
6. Recent development in early medieval urban history and archaeology in England Chris Dyer
7. Urban archaeology in Germany and the study of topographic, functional and social structures Heiko Steuer
8. English medieval town planning Terry Slater
Part III. Social Areas and Social Patterns: 9. Economy and society in eighteenth-century English towns: Bristol in the 1770s Elizabeth Baigent
10. Social status and place of residence in preindustrial German towns: recent studies in social topography Dietrich Deneke
11. The economic and social spatial structure of an early industrial town: Aachen Claudia Erdman
12. The social geography of nineteenth-century British cities: a review Colin Pooley and Richard Lawton
13. Patrician urban landlords: research on patronal relations in nineteenth-century 'estate-towns' in the British Isles Lindsay Proudfoot
Part IV. Urban Functional Change: 14. The development of urban centrality in England and Wales Harold Carter
15. The persistence and dynamics of office functions in West German cities since the late nineteenth century Heinz Heineberg and Norbert DeLang
16. Recent research on the commercial structure of nineteenth-century British cities Gareth Shaw
Part V. Urban Morphology and the Historicity of Townscape: 17. Morphogenesis, morphological regions and secular human agency in the historic townscape, as exemplified by Ludlow M. R. G. Conzen
18. The metrological analysis of early modern planned towns Jürgen Lafrenz
19. Recent developments in urban morphology Jeremy Whitehand
20. Historical geography and conservation planning in British towns Terry Slater and Gareth Shaw
Part VI. Conclusions: 21. Future developments in Anglo-German studies of urban historical geography Dietrich Deneke and Gareth Shaw
Index.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]