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Glasgow: Mapping the City Free FREE GLASGOW: MAPPING THE CITY PDF John Moore | 304 pages | 16 Oct 2015 | Birlinn General | 9781780273198 | English | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Glasgow Mapping The City - UK Map Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Glasgow by John N. Glasgow: Mapping the City by John N. Maps Glasgow: Mapping the City tell much about a place Glasgow: Mapping the City traditional histories fail Glasgow: Mapping the City communicate. This lavishly illustrated book includes more than 70 maps and numerous map features which have been selected for the particular stories they reveal about different political, commercial and social aspects of Scotland's largest city. The maps featured provide fascinating insights into topics suc Maps can tell Glasgow: Mapping the City about a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. The maps featured provide fascinating insights into topics such as: Glasgow: Mapping the City development of the Clyde and its shipbuilding industry; the villages which were gradually subsumed into the city; how the city was policed; what lies underneath the city streets; the growth of Glasgow during the Industrial Revolution; the development of transport; the city's green spaces; the health of Glasgow; the city as a tourist destination; the city as a wartime target ; and its regeneration in the s as a host city of one of the UK's five National Garden Festivals. Together the maps present a fascinating insight into how Glasgow has changed and developed over a period of almost years. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Glasgowplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Glasgow: Mapping the City. Nov 26, Raj rated it really liked it Shelves: non-fiction. Doing exactly what it says on the tin, this book has a carefully curated range of maps of Glasgow, selected to show interesting developments in the city, from the tapping of the Molendinar Burn, through the heyday of shipping on the Clyde to the Glasgow Garden Festival. The range of maps shows changes in the physical shape of the city, as it grows and expands, especially to the south and west; and changes to the social make up of the city too, charting policemen's beats, the spread of disease an Doing exactly what it says on the tin, this book has a carefully curated range of maps of Glasgow, selected to show interesting developments in the city, from the tapping of the Molendinar Burn, through the heyday of shipping on the Clyde to the Glasgow Garden Festival. The range of maps shows changes in the physical shape of the city, as it grows and expands, especially to the south and west; and changes to the social make up of the city too, charting policemen's beats, the spread of disease and the locations of post offices. The range of maps is immense, covering the city's history from myriad angles. The text that goes along with the maps is Glasgow: Mapping the City and well-researched. Moore usually provides some information on the Glasgow: Mapping the City makers as well as details of what is being shown and, where he can, providing wider social context. This is an absolutely gorgeous book albeit one that's too big to comfortably hold easily with Glasgow: Mapping the City reproductions of the maps on good quality, glossy paper. Generally each map is accorded four pages: a full-page close up of some detail on the map, and then the text over the next three pages, with the full-size map and often other close ups as well. More than once, I wished that I had a Glasgow: Mapping the City glass so that Glasgow: Mapping the City could zoom into the detail. It seems that mapping of Glasgow started comparatively late. Despite a blurry manuscript dating fromand several naval charts of the Clyde, the first plan map of the city in the book is dated as late as The bulk of the book is taken up with maps from the 19th century, as the city of Glasgow exploded in size during the industrial revolution, with comparatively few in the 20th, although the ones that were there were fascinating, especially the post WW1 plan for "homes for heroes", the German map that could have been used in a land invasion of Britain and the radical post-war plan that would have completely reshaped the city, if it had ever been implemented. For anyone interested in Glasgow's history Glasgow: Mapping the City development, this is a fascinating book to browse through. I've come to love Glasgow over the years that I've lived here, and this book is a wonderful way to experience its history in a very visual way. Nov 17, Callum Soukup-Croy rated it really liked it Shelves: historygeographyscottish. This book will of course have a limited appeal, aimed mainly at those with an interest in the local history of Glasgow, but it does what it does very well. The book is a history of the maps that have been made of Glasgow from its earliest days to the present and the stories of those who made them and why. Reading it you sometimes wish that the text gave a little more information on the 'why' rather than the 'who' but if you accept the fact that this is a history of Glasgow mapping you can overlo This book will of course have a limited appeal, aimed mainly at those with an interest in the local history of Glasgow, but it does what Glasgow: Mapping the City does very well. Reading it you sometimes wish that the text gave a little more information on the 'why' rather than the 'who' but if you accept the fact that this is a history of Glasgow mapping you can overlook such a small foible. Where this book really succeeds is in the wealth of illustrations. These are, simply put, fantastic. Large in scale, fully coloured and crammed with detail the only thing that slows you down from reading this book in a matter of hours is the time you end up poring over the maps. Picking out the details Glasgow: Mapping the City old streets and buildings is hugely interesting and will have you constantly consulting Google Maps to see what features still remain. If you have an interest in the local history of Glasgow then you will not regret buying this book and I have no doubt you will be picking it up again and again. 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About John N. John N. John Moore is a specialist on Scottish Cartography and has published widely on the subject over a period of many years. Books by John N. Related Articles. If you haven't heard of record-smashing singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, is there any hope for you? Read more Trivia About Glasgow: Mapping No trivia or quizzes yet. Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Glasgow - Wikipedia It is the third most populous city in the United Kingdomas of the estimated city population ofHistorically part of Lanarkshirethe city now forms the Glasgow City council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland ; the local authority is Glasgow City Council. It is the fifth most visited city in the UK. Inhabitants of the city are referred Glasgow: Mapping the City as "Glaswegians" or, in the pejorative, as "Weegies". Glasgow is also known for the Glasgow pattera distinct dialect of the Scots language that is noted for being difficult to understand by those from outside the city. Glasgow grew from a small Glasgow: Mapping the City settlement on Glasgow: Mapping the City River Clyde to become the largest seaport in Scotland, and tenth largest by tonnage in Britain.
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