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UNINA9910463146703321 |
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Autore |
Home Robert K. |
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Titolo |
Of planting and planning : the making of British colonial cities / / Robert Home |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-283-97297-2 |
0-203-38476-8 |
1-135-94582-9 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Planning, history and environment series |
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City planning - Great Britain - Colonies - History |
Architecture, British - Developing countries |
Vernacular architecture - Developing countries |
Electronic books. |
Great Britain Colonies Administration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Glossary -- Year of independence and population of the main British colonies -- Introduction : the chief exporter of municipalities -- The "Grand modell" of colonial settlement -- "Planting is my trade" : the shapers of colonial urban landscapes -- Port cities of the British empire : "a global thalassocracy" -- The "warehousing" of the labouring classes -- "The inconvenience felt by Europeans" : racial segregation, its rise and fall -- "Miracle-worker to the people" : the idea of town planning, 1910-1935 -- "This novel legislation" : institutionalizing town planning, 1900-1950 -- "What kind of country do you want?" : the transition to independence -- Conclusions: the legacy of colonial town planning -- References -- Index. |
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'At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.' - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its zenith.Of Planting and Planning explores how Britain used |
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the formation of towns and cities as an instrument of colonial expansion and control throughout the Empire. Beginning with the seventeenth-century plantation of Ulster and ending with decoloniza |
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UNINA9910455779003321 |
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Titolo |
Toward a health statistics system for the 21st century [[electronic resource] ] : summary of a workshop / / Edward B. Perrin, William D. Kalsbeek, and Terri M. Scanlan, editors |
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Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (93 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PerrinEdward |
KalsbeekWilliam D. <1946-> |
ScanlanTerri M |
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Disciplina |
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Health surveys - United States - Statistical methods |
Medical statistics - Data processing |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Summary of a workshop organized by the Committee on National Statistics and held on November 4-5, 1999. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Health Statistics: Past, Present, and Future*; 3 Workshop Discussion; 4 Some New Directions; Appendix: Workshop Materials |
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