It has long been recognised that the Church played a major role in the development of towns and cities from the earliest times, a fact attested to by the promin

Although the Church played a major role in the development of towns and cities from the earliest times, many important aspects of the early stages of urbanizati

People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship

This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in medieval England. It draws on the great variety of written evidence for this significant and dyna

This volume is the first publication to draw upon the mass of information provided by the Historic Towns Atlases in order to explore comparative questions in me