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The Settlement Patterns of Britain - Past, Present and the Future Foretold in Eight Essays (Paperback)
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The Settlement Patterns of Britain - Past, Present and the Future Foretold in Eight Essays (Paperback)
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
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In writing The Settlement Patterns of Britain Nick Green was
inspired by the short story genre. His book is a collection of
eight non-fiction short stories or essays, where the characters are
the places, some of which appear more than once, usually as
bit-part players, occasionally as the main protagonist. Preceded by
a prologue describing Britain's prehistory as a European peninsula,
each essay covers a fixed period in the history of the development
of Britain's settlement patterns, sometimes long, more often quite
short, beginning around 2,500 BC and ending about one hundred years
in the future. Nick Green chose those periods that are particularly
instructive in revealing how settlement patterns come to exist in
the form they do and how they might develop in the future.
Settlement patterns are not just about where a place is, but about
how that place relates to others. They wax and wane with
circumstance, and around each settlement's fixed core, the patterns
of living and working shift constantly, driven by forces beyond the
control of any individual town or city or village. From Bronze Age
communities to computer simulations, from the mediaeval wool trade
to the hyper-networked society, from Viking invasions to the
post-industrial era, the essays cover a broad sweep of history.
They appear in chronological order, but are not intended to provide
a continuous, linear historical narrative - nor do they: each essay
is freestanding so they can be read in whatever order the reader
prefers.
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