Streetscapes: Navigating Historic English Towns

by Ptolemy Dean

Featuring 26 of the most attractive and interesting historic town centres, this book analyses key routes and the urban or visual incidents along them and explains why they might provoke different sensations of joy, interest or containment for the inhabitant or passer-by. Each of the town studies includes two historical maps - one created by John Speed in the C16th, which explains the general overall layout of a town, its shape, size, defensive walls,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848226837
• ISBN13: 9781848226838
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 304 Pages