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City - A Guidebook for the Urban Age
P.D. Smith
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 1408801914
RRP Price: £25.00 Hardback
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For the first time in the history of the planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - are now living in cities. Two hundred years ago only 3 per cent of the world's population were urbanites, a figure that had remained fairly stable (give or take the occasional plague) for about 1000....MORE
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Rice's Architectural Primer
Matthew Rice
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747597480
RRP Price: £14.99 Hardback
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A beautifully packaged, idiosyncratic introduction to British building styles, by the acclaimed illustrator and architectural enthusiast Matthew Rice.
RICE’S ARCHITECTURAL PRIMER covers the grammar and vocabulary of British buildings, explaining the evolution of styles from Norman castles to Norm....MORE
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How We Built Britain
David Dimbleby
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 074759287X
RRP Price: £14.99 Paperback
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Ties in with the major BBC 1 series, a full and gloriously colourful social history of the nation through its buildings
How did we get from the fortified tower to the grand open mansion and back again to the gated communities of today?
How did we lose the marketplace to the out-of-town shopping ....MORE
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Castles From the Air
Paul Johnson
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747587469
RRP Price: £35.00 Hardback
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A stunning series of aerial portraits of more than 150 castles in England, Scotland and Wales
The castles of Britain are icons of history. They were built to mark the domains of the powerful and stood as symbols of authority. They were built using the most advanced structural technology of the da....MORE
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