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The Settlement Patterns of Britain - Nick Green

The Settlement Patterns of Britain

Past, Present and the Future Foretold in Eight Essays

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Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-69877-1 (ISBN)
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In eight carefully crafted essays, each focusing on a key period in our island’s history, Nick Green explores the origins of Britain’s settlement patterns from pre-history to the present day, the lessons that these have for the future and, finally, what that future may hold.
In writing The Settlement Patterns of Britain Nick Green was inspired by the short story genre. His book is a collection of eight non-fiction short stories or essays, where the characters are the places, some of which appear more than once, usually as bit-part players, occasionally as the main protagonist. Preceded by a prologue describing Britain’s prehistory as a European peninsula, each essay covers a fixed period in the history of the development of Britain’s settlement patterns, sometimes long, more often quite short, beginning around 2,500 BC and ending about one hundred years in the future.

Nick Green chose those periods that are particularly instructive in revealing how settlement patterns come to exist in the form they do and how they might develop in the future. Settlement patterns are not just about where a place is, but about how that place relates to others. They wax and wane with circumstance, and around each settlement’s fixed core, the patterns of living and working shift constantly, driven by forces beyond the control of any individual town or city or village.

From Bronze Age communities to computer simulations, from the mediaeval wool trade to the hyper-networked society, from Viking invasions to the post-industrial era, the essays cover a broad sweep of history. They appear in chronological order, but are not intended to provide a continuous, linear historical narrative – nor do they: each essay is freestanding so they can be read in whatever order the reader prefers.

Nick Green is a Senior Tutor in the School of Planning and Environmental Management, University of Manchester. He is a member of the Town and Country Planning Association and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Preface and Acknowledgements. 0. The Dawning of the Tenth Wave: A Prologue to the Eight Essays. 1. Of Hillforts and Homesteads: Settlement Patterns in the Bronze and Iron Ages. 2. See, The Conquering Bureaucrat Comes: Roman-British Settlement Patterns, c. 150 AD. 3. To Be, Then Not To Be: Th e Demise of the Hamlet in England, 850–1086. 4. A Small Town in Gloucestershire: Cirencester and the International Wool Trade. 5. Travels with Mr Defoe and Some Others: Journeys Through Britain’s Pre-Industrial Settlement Patterns. 6. Towards Hyper-Polycentricity: Or What a Giant Fungus Can Teach Us About Settlement Patterns. 7. The Uses of Consolatory Fables: How Computer Models Can Help Us Understand Settlement Patterns. 8. Biography of an Island Foretold. Bibliography. Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Planning, History and Environment Series
Zusatzinfo 33 Line drawings, black and white; 38 Halftones, black and white; 71 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 521 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
ISBN-10 0-415-69877-4 / 0415698774
ISBN-13 978-0-415-69877-1 / 9780415698771
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