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Cambridge
The Oxbridge Portfolio, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 202) and index
"First published by Frances Lincoln 2005" -- T. p. verso
"This new edition published by The Oxbridge Portfolio 2016" -- T. p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cambridge is a city of contrasts. Both a small market town in the east of England and the home of an ancient university of world renown, it is at once provincial and universal in its appeal, local and international in outlook. But what made this place in a remote corner of England so attractive to those who first settled there? How did Town and Gown grow up together? How did Cambridge evolve into the bustling, university city it is today? In the first part of this book, Tim Rawle gives a survey of the city's history from its very beginnings, with an underlying architectural viewpoint. A special section on the evolving layout of the university's colleges completes the story and shows how they have shaped the Cambridge townscape over the last 700 years. This colourful book overflows with a stunning collection of photographs taken by the author, who lives in Cambridge.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- CAMBRIDGE: Origins
- Northern Invaders
- Norman Cambridge
- Academic Invaders
- Reformation Cambridge
- Seventeenth - and Eighteenth-Century Cambridge
- The Nineteenth Century - Enclosure, Expansion and Reform
- Modern Cambridge
- THE EVOLVING COLLEGE PLAN: Random Building
- The Early Courts
- The Organised Quadrangle after Wykeham at Oxford (1380-6)
- The College Court as a Derivative of the Medieval Manor House
- The Three-Sided or 'Sanitary' Plan, after Dr Caius (1565-9)
- Downing College and the Campus Plan (1807-22)
- The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Churchill College - Courts within a Campus (1959-68)
- Robinson College - Courts within a Castle Bailey (1977-80)
- Chronological Summary of the Founding of the Cambridge Colleges
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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