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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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
