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Terms and conditions applyHow We Built Britain
David Dimbleby
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Format: Book
Pages: 288
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Date Published: Jun 2007
Stock Code: 61279
Binding: Hardback
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In this meticulously researched and illustrated book, David Dimbleby tells the dramatic and heroic story of Britain's architecture - the extraordinary buildings that define a nation and which grew out of the experiences and beliefs of the British people. How did we get from the fortified tower to the grand open mansion and back again to the gated communities of today? How did we lose the marketplace to the out-of-town shopping mall? When did it become so important how libraries and prisons look? What does the way we arrange our city centres say about us? Can architecture really make a difference to our quality of life?
This fascinating and authoritative account of a thousand years of change in Britain's buildings tackles these questions and many more. The book is published to tie in with a new BBC TV series presented byits author.
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