description: Focusing mainly on Bath and Wells, but with glances at other towns in the pre-1974 counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset, Scrase (the built environment, University of the West of England, Bristol) examines the processes whereby the highway systems were either diminished or increased. He shows how the changes raise questions about the use of the system, how streets and squares changed from multipurpose open spaces to arteries exclusively for the movement and parking of vehicles, and the provision of specialist spaces for displaced functions such as livestock markets. The text is double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Streets and Market Places in Towns of Southwest England: Encroachments and Improvements
titlecomplete: Streets and Market Places in Towns of Southwest England: Encroachments and Improvements (Mellen Studies in Geography)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr