Birmingham: A Study in Geography, History and PlanningThe origins and setting of the city, its rise to industrial preeminence, its achievement in civil government, enlightened planning, housing and transport and their results in urban form and land use are considered. Also discusses the impact of the Second World War, change and decline in the industrial base, the restructuring of the city center and Birmingham's role as an international ``Fair'' city in a post-industrial world. Illustrated with maps, diagrams and photographs. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Birminghams origins and early development | 11 |
The Manufacturing Town 1760s1851 | 33 |
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19th century acres architect architectural Aston authorities Birming Black Country Bordesley Borough boundary Bournville Village Trust building built Bull Ring Cadbury canal Castle Bromwich central area Chamberlain Chelmsley Wood Church city centre City Council city's civic clearance Colmore committee conurbation Council House Coventry demolished density Deritend districts Duddeston dwellings early east economic Edgbaston employment engineering Erdington established expansion extended factory favoured Figure flats gardens geography Green growth Hall Handsworth Harborne Herbert Manzoni improvement increased industrial inner ring road jewellery Jewellery Quarter King's Norton labour land layout London manufacturing ment metal Nechells Nettlefold open space overspill Park period Perry Barr political population post-war problem production programme railway redevelopment region rents Saltley scheme Selly Oak slum Small Heath social Solihull Staffordshire suburban suburbs Sutcliffe and Smith tion town planning trade urban Warwickshire West Midlands Yardley
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