Intelligent Town An Urban History of Swansea, 1780-1855

Louise Miskell, "Intelligent Town: An Urban History of Swansea, 1780-1855 "
English | ISBN: 0708325106 | 2012 | 254 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Intelligent Town is the first full-length study of Swansea’s urban development from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Louise Miskell tells the little-known story of how Swansea gained an unrivaled position of influence as an urban center-which led to its brief claim as the "metropolis of Wales," and how it then lost this status in the face of rapid urban development elsewhere in Wales. As such