ABSTRACT
People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship on the forces, people, and institutions that have shaped cities from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Larkham and Conzen collect new essays in "urban morphology," the people-centered predecessor to contemporary theories of top-down urban design. Shapers of Urban Form focuses on the social processes that create patterns of urban forms in four discrete periods: Pre-modern, early modern, industrial-era and postmodern development. Featuring studies of English, American, Western and Eastern European, and New Zealand urban history and urban form, this collection is invaluable to scholars of urban design and town planning, as well as urban and economic historians.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|23 pages
Introduction
part 2|56 pages
Agency in Pre-Modern Settings
chapter 2|19 pages
Royal Authority and Urban Formation
part 3|53 pages
Agency in Early Modern Settings
chapter 7|20 pages
Colonial Regime Change and Urban Form
part 4|82 pages
Agency in Industrial-Era Settings
chapter 8|15 pages
Squeezing Railroads Into Cities
chapter 9|21 pages
Shaping the Housing of Industrialists and Workers
chapter 10|20 pages
Residential Differentiation in Nineteenth-Century Glasgow
part 5|84 pages
Agency in Late Modern and Postmodern Settings
chapter 12|11 pages
Modernism Against History
chapter 13|21 pages
A New Vision
chapter 14|16 pages
In Search of New Syntheses
chapter 15|18 pages
Morphological Processes, Planning, and Market Realities
chapter 16|16 pages
“Birmingham Needs You. You Need Birmingham” 1
part 6|22 pages
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