Company Town of Goole. An essay in urban genesis
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- Author(s) Porteous, John D
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1969
- Pages 50pp; illus
- Publisher University of Hull
- Place Published Hull
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- Name Bristol University Library
- City Bristol
- County Avon
- Country England
- Postcode BS8 1TJ
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Scholarly account dealing with the development of Goole, 1820-50, as a major British urban port which was partly planned and which was the terminal dock of the Aire & Calder Navigation; the role of the navigation in developing and subsequently influencing it before the railway age. Written by a geographer. Sections include: Pristine landscape; Advent of the canal; Initial terminal; Impact of the canal; New town - planning and construction; New town - townscape; New town - ecology; Urban growth and company control