MANCHESTER: MAPPING THE CITY
Written by Terry Wyke, Brian Robson, Martin Dodge
Published by Birlinn Limited
in 2018
ISBN: 9781780275307
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MANCHESTER: MAPPING THE CITY
Written by Terry Wyke, Brian Robson, Martin Dodge.
Stock no. 1822304
1st.
2018.
Hardback.
Large format.
Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Manchester is one of the world's most iconic cities. Not only was it the first industrial city, it can also claim to be the first post-industrial city. The historic maps and unpublished plans in this book chart the dramatic growth and transformation of Manchester and its conurbation. Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w maps throughout. ISBN: 9781780275307. A fine copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges and very slightly grubby.
Front cover
Contents
- 1728 Eighteenth-century panoramic views
- 1746 The town's first authentic street map
- 1753 Shudehill and the Hulme charity
- 1780 The first modern canal
- 1788 The development of estate land in the growing town
- 1793 Laurent and Green: copy of complement@
- 1809 Town directories and Pigot's Manchester plans
- 1819 'The Peterloo Massacre'
- 1824a The mixed legacy of grand houses
- 1824b The coming of railways
- 1831 Spinning mills and the making of cottonopolis
- 1832a Lines on maps: Dawson and parliamentary boundaries
- 1832b Moving the starting line: 'Manchester' race courses
- 1837 Victoria Park: a gated enclave
- 1849 The scourge of cholera
- 1851a Adshead's maps: a flawed masterpiece
- 1851b Municipal parks: health and civic pride
- 1857 The Art Treasures Exhibition and illustrated town guides
- 1866 A municipal palace: Alfred Waterhouse's Town Hall
- 1868 Paying the cabbie
- 1881 Delivering plentiful clean water to the city
- 1889a 'The demon drink'
- 1889b A bird's-eye view
- 1889c The fear of fire: Goad's insurance plans
- 1892 Salford at the end of Victorian industrialisation
- 1894 Manchester Ship Canal: 'The Big Ditch'
- 1896 Trafford Park: the first industrial estate
- 1904 Mapping Manchester's slums
- 1906 Victoria Station's railway wall map
- 1908 Garden suburbs: Burnage and Chorltonville
- 1912 The Royal Exchange: 'Parliament of the cotton lords'
- 1916 The handy penny tram
- 1923 Moving the goalposts: Old Trafford and Maine Road
- 1926 Civic Week: a cartoon cartography of the city
- 1928 Wythenshawe: satellite town or garden city?
- 1937 Entertainments: stage, screen and the music scene
- 1945 Post-war visionary planning
- 1956 Fantasy transport: unrealised plans above and below ground
- 1958 Belle Vue: bread and circuses
- 1960 Introducing parking meters
- 1967 Master-planning an educational precinct
- 1972a Soviet mapping: a view from the East
- 1972b Hulme Crescents and after
- 1975 Air pollution and smoke control areas
- 1976 Mapping the most famous street in Manchester
- 1978 The Arndale: shopping behemoth
- 1982a Takin to the skies: Manchester Airport
- 1982b Defining the green belt
- 1985 Inventing Salford Quays and MediaCity
- 1986 Castlefield: urban heritage
- 1996a Reconfiguring the city centre after the IRA bomb
- 1996b One man maps the city centre
- 2001 Regenerating east Manchester
- 2016 Recognising the wider city region