Suburbanising the Masses
Subtitle: Public Transport and Urban Development in Historical Perspective
Contributors: Colin Divall (Editor); Winstan Bond (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780754607755
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Public transport systems; Social history; Transport industries; Urban & municipal planning; c 1800 to c 1900; Transportation; History; Social Science; Sociology; British Isles; Western Continental Europe; United States; General; Europe; Urbanization
First sentence: Historians are, as Theo Barker remarked in 1980, 'all agreed upon the relevance, if not the precise relationship, of the development of public transport to urban growth'.