Mark Crinson Shock City All Books sku-703300943 Hardcover

Mark Crinson's Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester is a hardcover listed under All Books. It examines Manchester's architecture and urban form from the mid-eighteenth century to the nineteen-twenties, with a focus on industrial production, cotton and steam power.

Crinson challenges the idea that Paris was the "capital of the nineteenth century" by looking at Manchester's mills, warehouses, Royal Exchange, Gothic Revival Town Hall and late Gothic Revival Rylands Library. He also draws on paintings, prints, maps and photographs to discuss the city's buildings, institutions, industrial pollution and emerging industrial middle classes.

Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. SKU: sku-703300943.