Rose, Mark H.
Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America
(Pennsylvania UP, 1995).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xviii + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A12352
Keywords: 0271013494, city, cities, towns, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, gas, electricity, urban, power, technology
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Cowie, H, Harlow, C. and Emerson, R.
Rebuilding the Infrastructure: The Needs of English Cities and Towns
(Policy Studies Institute, 1984).
Paperback. Spine slightly chipped, map at back slightly torn, otherwise very good. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-A10595
Keywords: 0853742472, towns, cities, Britain, British, England, English, history, infrastructure, building, construction, twentieth century, 20th
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Merriman, John M., ed.
French Cities in the Nineteenth Century:
(Holmes & Meier, 1981).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 304pp. Order No. NSBK-A3629
Keywords: 0841904642, France, French, cities, urban, history, towns, nineteenth century, Second Empire, Napoleon III, municipal, suburbs, urbanisation, city, cities, settlement, demography
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Schwarz, Hans.
Painting in Towns and Cities:
(Studio Vista, 1980).
Paperback. Light edge wear, otherwise good. 104pp. Order No. NSBK-A14345
Keywords: 0289709733, painting, towns, cities, city, town, urban, art, oils, drawings
Price £5.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
Homes of the London Poor:
(Macmillan, first edition, 1875).
Rare first edition copy. Hardback. Leather spine worn / scuffed. Cloth, which is a little patchy with sun-fading, has light marking, spotting. Fly leaf split at spine and last page loose, else a good solid copy. pp. Order No. NSBK-C16068
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society, London, women
Price £135.00.
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Canby, Courtlandt.
The Past Displayed: a Journey Through the Ancient World
(Book Club, 1980).
Hardback. Outsized book. Very good in lightly foxed, slightly creased dustwrapper. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A16053
Keywords: 9780714819150, travel, ancient world, history, Greece, Egypt, lost cities
Price £25.50.
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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
Price £30.00.
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Booth, Charles, ed.
Life and Labour of the People of London:
(Macmillan, 1892).
Volume III (3, Three): Blocks of Buildings, Schools and Immigration. Original edition. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, gilt lettering to spine, good+ condition, firm. 306pp. Order No. NSBK-A16073
Keywords: London, streets, Charles Booth, Charles Booth's London, metropolitan, social history, poverty, poor, class, population, demography, demographic, occupations, working classes, working class, working-class, neighbourhood, Britain, British, England, English, Booths, Booth, social investigations, surveys, urban history, labor, labour, life and labour, towns, town, city, cities, urbanisation, classification, statistical, statistics, school boards, education, housing, neighbours, inhabitants, respectability, blocks, London, antiquarian, buildings, schools, immigration, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £42.00.
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Ouvry, Elinor Southwood.
Extracts from Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1864 - 1911:
(Adelphi Book Shop, London, 1933).
Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Card covers. Spine darkened, edges of covers slightly chipped / slightly curled, some chipping to spine, internally very good. iii + 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C4295
Keywords: B001QVTYT0, open spaces, housing, housing management, house, houses, Octavia Hill, London, philanthropy, women, woman, philanthropist, philanthropists, town planning, social history, welfare, towns, city, cities, fellow workers, fellow-workers, housing reformers, housing reformer, slum, slums, property, poor, poverty, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century
Price £26.50.
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Dyos, H.J., ed.
The Study of Urban History: The Proceedings of an International Round Table Conference of the Urban History Group at Gilbert Murray Hall, University of Leicester, Sept. 1966
(Edward Arnold, rpt, 1971).
Hardback. Fly leaf clipped, otherwise good in browned dustwrapper. xxii + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A266
Keywords: 0713154136, urban history, Britain, British, England, English, history, towns, cities, Victorian, nineteenth century, urbanisation, industrialisation
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