Bristol: City on the Edge
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Bristol, contends Tim Mowl, 'can outpoint Edinburgh, Glasgow or York and leave Liverpool, its whinging rival, standing.' And as for Bath...is a port that set out, a long while ago, to forget the sea. It has a harbour with miles of picturesque quaysides. Half the city's streets are flattered by glimpses of water. Yet Bristol lies comfortably inland, protected by wooded hills, sprawling in linear charm along five miles of dramatic valley topography. While neighbouring Bath sets its classical terraces primly on a slope, Bristol's Clifton throws its adventurously styled terraces around the neck of precipices and wild woodlands to achieve that ultimate paradox of classicism fusing into Romanticism. Add to that two cathedralsized churches of outstanding beauty. While the vile profits of Bristol's infamous eighteenth-century slave trade resulted in enchantingly figurative Rococo interiors, a surge of nineteenth-century wealth endowed the city with a financial quarter of an eclectic brilliance. The second mystery might explain the first. For a thousand years Bristol has been badly governed.
In every age, out of greed or plain stupidity, Bristolians have made the wrong decisions in developing their city, yet art and architecture have rioted in the resultant thousand errors. The aim of this book will be to illustrate those errors and attempt to account for the paradox.
Author : Menneer, Neill
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Publishers
Format : Hardcover
Date : 27 Oct 2006
Category: Books : Guides
Location: England, South West, Bristol, Bristol
BUY: Bristol: City on the Edge
| SKU | PRICE | POSTAGE | BUY |
| 9780711225701 | £14.99 | £2.95 |
