Titre et auteur:

The Rise and fall of great cities : aspects of urbanization in the Western world / edited by Richard Lawton.

Publication:

London ; New York : Belhaven Press, 1989.

Description:

xii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : aspects of the development and role of great cities in the Western World in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Richard Lawton -- The rise and fall of great cities : economic forces and population responses / Peter Hall -- Public policy and the morphology of western cities : the example of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Gordon E. Cherry -- Premature obituaries : change and adaptation in the great cities / Brian Robson -- Industrialization, urban growth and the city economy / Gareth Shaw -- What would one need to know to solve the "natural population decrease problem" in early-modern cities / Robert Woods -- Zivilis or Hygaeia : urban public health and the epidemiologic transition / Gerry Kearns -- Working-class housing in European cities since 1850 / Colin G. Pooley -- Migration and the growth and decline of cities in Western Europe / Anthony J. Fielding -- The city in the global information economy / John B. Goddard -- Past and present of the Western city / Jean Gottmann.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

1852930500
9781852930509

Sujet:

Urbanization Europe History.
Cities and towns Europe History.
Urbanization United States History.
Urbanisation Europe Histoire.
Urbanisation États-Unis Histoire.
Villes Europe Histoire.
74.06 thematic geography: general.
Cities and towns.
Urbanization.
Steden.
Urbanization History.
Cities and towns History.
Europe.
United States.
Western world Cities, history

Classification/genre:

History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Lawton, Richard.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 49105
Cote: ID:89-B8127
Statut: Disponible