British Market Hall. A social and architectural history

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Scholarly account dealing with how and why the market hall evolved as a replacement for open air markets. Its four sections deal with: 1] 'Urban space and reinvention of the market' - 'the traditional market' / 'inventing the market hall' / 'ownership, tolls and market reform'; 2] 'Architecture and design of the public market' - 'great expectations - moral architecture and social purpose' / 'market hall architecture - typology and design' / 'construction, site and materials'; 3] 'The market hall and socioeconomic change' - 'food, the market hall and the standard of living' / 'patterns of growth and reform' / 'the grand age of the market hall, 1830-90'; 4] 'Decline and recovery' - 'the public market and the retail revolution - decline or modernization?' / 'the public market in the age of the supermarket, 1939 to the present'. Includes extensive gazetteer of halls, pp241-300. Excludes London