Book Week: Streetscapes: Navigating Historic English Towns - Ptolemy Dean
Ptolemy Dean speaks about his new book 'Streetscapes: Navigating Historic English Towns.'
Featuring 26 historic town centres, the book analyses key routes and the urban or visual incidents along them and explains why they might provoke different sensations of joy, interest or containment for the inhabitant or passer-by. Each of the town studies includes two historical maps – one created by John Speed in the C16th, which explains the general overall layout of a town, its shape, size, defensive walls, and river crossings, and the other a first edition OS map from the late C19th, which reveals the extent that medieval arrangements have survived, or not.
The film can be viewed on the Architecture Youtube channel.
