TY - JOUR
T1 - Nature, the past and the English town
T2 - A counter-cultural history
AU - Borsay, Peter
N1 - This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S096392681500098X
PY - 2016/2/10
Y1 - 2016/2/10
N2 - In investigating urban culture, historians have understandably tended to focus on the man-made and the modern, and have paid less attention to the role of nature and the past, which seem the opposite of what the town stands for. This survey, which takes as its case-study England, argues that nature and the past have always been part of urban life, but as urbanization gathered pace, particularly from the eighteenth century, they became if anything an even more important element in city and town culture.
AB - In investigating urban culture, historians have understandably tended to focus on the man-made and the modern, and have paid less attention to the role of nature and the past, which seem the opposite of what the town stands for. This survey, which takes as its case-study England, argues that nature and the past have always been part of urban life, but as urbanization gathered pace, particularly from the eighteenth century, they became if anything an even more important element in city and town culture.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/36534
U2 - 10.1017/S096392681500098X
DO - 10.1017/S096392681500098X
M3 - Article
SN - 0963-9268
VL - 44
SP - 27
EP - 43
JO - Urban History
JF - Urban History
IS - 1
ER -
