Hunt, Tristram, 1974- author.

Building Jerusalem : the rise and fall of the Victorian city / Tristram Hunt

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004

xvi, 432 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plan, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

"'It was a town of red brick, or of brick which would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever and never got uncoiled.'" "Since Charles Dickens first described Coketown, the Victorian city has been an object of derision: a byword for deprivation, criminality, and pollution. Born of the industrial revolution, the nineteenth-century city is still depicted as a monstrous landscape of factories, beggars and disease." "Yet, as Tristram Hunt argues in his history, the urban world of the 1800s was far more than an unthinking industrial sprawl. It was the subject of passionate debates which inspired the great civic edifices that still dominate Britain's streets: the town halls, city squares, parish churches, local schools, the very sewers beneath our feet." "Beginning with the horrors of the industrial city witnessed by Dickens and Engels, Tristram Hunt explores the energy, achievements and unbridled pride that are the victorian legacy. From the classical ideals of St. George's Hall, Liverpool, to the Renaissance ambitions of Leeds Town Hall; from the stinging criticisms of John Ruskin to the unbounded confidence of Thomas Macaulay; and from the raw individualism of the Manchester merchants to the municipal socialism of Joseph Chamberlain, the vibrant controversy of the Victorian city comes alive." "As our major cities strive to regain their former glories. Tristram Hunt offers an account of an unrivalled era of civic pride. Building Jerusalem is a history of the ideas and people who inspired the great urban civilization of Victorian Britain."--Jacket

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Architecture, Victorian Great Britain History.
City planning Great Britain History.
Cities and towns Great Britain History 19th century.
Villes Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture victorienne Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Urbanisme Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Cities and towns
Architecture, Victorian
Buildings
City planning
Steden.
Stedenbouw.
Architecture, Victorian Great Britain.
City planning Great Britain.
Great Britain Buildings, structures, etc.
Grande-Bretagne Constructions.
Great Britain

History

Weidenfeld and Nicolson (Firm), publisher.

Rise and fall of the Victorian city

Location: Library main 232882
Call No.: HT133 .H867 2004
Status: Available