Product Description: This volume is based on possibly the biggest single Europe-wide project in urban history. In 1955 the International Commission for the History of Towns established the European historic towns atlas project in accordance with a common scheme in order to encourage comparative urban studies...read more

Product Description: This third installment of the examination of Dublin - from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series - traces the history and development of Dublin through the late 18th and early 19th centuries. During this period, many of the city's modern streets were laid out...read more

Product Description: Over the last twenty years, the redevelopment of the docklands has radically altered the physical fabric and social structure of a large part of Dublin City both north and south of the river. What has happened in the city is not entirely unique and has many international parallels in places like New York, London and Sydney...read more

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Product Description: This is the first volume in a short series that will deal with the planning and development of Dublin from the earliest times to the present day. The focus is on the built environment and from both geographical and historical perspectives aims to unravel and explain the processes that have interacted to produce today's city...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The story of Irish towns reflects the formative periods of town foundation: from Gaelic monastic sites to Anglo-Norman boroughs and to early modern plantation towns as well as eighteenth-century estate towns.A town plan and an evocative black-and-white illustration helps to establish the individuality of each town...read more

Product Description: Ireland is a country of small towns, most of which have fewer than 5000 inhabitants. This book deals with the origin, development and character of selected towns in Ireland, North and South. Each of these places tells the story of its townspeople through the layout of its streets and the choice of its street-names, its public buildings, and the larger and smaller houses of merchants and artisans...read more

Product Description: This exquisite volume assembles the first six towns of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, previously published as individual fascicles. Kildare and Kells have their origins in monastic sites, while Carrickfergus and Athlone are part of an extensive network of colonial towns built in the late twelfth century...read more

Product Description: Coloured map 410 mm x 305 mm; 8 pages of black-andwhite maps and plates and 12 pages of text 410 mm x 305 mm; in a folder 410 mm x 305 mm.