Mediæval town planning : a lecture delivered at the John Rylands Library on the 13th December, 1916 (1917)
Tout, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), 1855-1929 · Manchester : The University Press, [etc.] · leaf 16
ainst an old town likely to give the new lords trouble. All were possible refuges to the countryside, when invasion or civil war came. But the economic motive loomed large from the first. It paid a lord to attract settlers and traders to his own town, and to divert commerce from the towns which ..… … MEDI/EVAL TOWN PLANNING 13 the profits of success were great, and the risks of failure were incon- Isiderable. The origin of the bastides of Languedoc is to be found in thedays before the northern conquest when monasteries, possessing largetracts of lands and no tenants to till them, attracted…
City planning · Cities and towns, Medieval
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