Knox, Paul L.2020-04-282020-04-282020-04Knox, Paul L. Strong Island: Portsmouth's History in Brick and Stone. Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/97919http://hdl.handle.net/10919/97919Some cities are the product of an exceptional history that has produced a distinctive cityscape. Portsmouth, on Britain's south coast across the English Channel from France, is one of these cities, with a built environment and sense of place shaped as much by a unique physical situation and by the tides of war and peace as by economic, social, and architectural history.Introduction: Changing Cityscapes -- Pre-Modern Traces -- Company Town -- Pax Brittanica -- War... War -- Reconstruction -- Regeneration -- Further Reading -- Photo Credits -- Index.203 pagesapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightPortsmouth (England)Built environmentArchitectureUrban historyUrban geographyMorphogenesisBookPaul L. Knox