Building Jerusalem: The Rise And Fall of the Victorian City by: Hunt, Tristram
Softcover. NY, Owl Books/Henry Holt, 1st US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 576 pages, index, b&w illustrations. An account of the rise of Coketown, the English industrial areas of Manchester and Birmingham in the 1800s; how the Victorians transformed their blight into an early example of urban renewal - only to have it collapse into decay again in the twentieth century. Clean copy.