Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London

Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London portes grátis

Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London

Spatial Consequences to the Reordering of London's Burials in the Early 19th Century

Amadei, Gian Luca

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2023

184

Mole

Inglês

9781032015187

15 a 20 dias

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Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Health

1.1 - Metropolitan Sepulchre

1.2 - Overcrowding

1.3 - Ordering the Dead

Chapter 2 - Identity

2.1 - Landscapes of Remembrance

2.2 - The Business of Burying the Dead

2.3 - Architecture and Legacy

2.4 - Rational Minds

Chapter 3 - Suburbs / Kensal Green

3.1 - Metropolitan Picturesque

3.2 - Testing Ground

3.3 - A New Suburb

Chapter 4 - Suburbs / Highgate

4.1 - The Village at the Edge of the Metropolis

4.2 - Gravestones and Vistas

4.3 - New Hospitals and Clean Air

Chapter 5 - Suburbs / Brookwood and Woking

5.1 - Waterways and Brick Yards

5.2 - Cemetery and Town

5.3 - New Century, New Beginning

5.4 - The Woking Residential Estates

5.5 - Conclusions

Chapter 6 - Rethinking

6.1 - Open Spaces

6.2 - New Alternatives to Earth Burial

6.3 - Future Visions

6.4 - Conclusions

Bibliography

Index
urban burial practices;nineteenth century urbanism;public health history;landscape architecture cemeteries;metropolitan sanitary reform;mortuary landscape studies;spatial transformation of burial grounds