Geoffrey Tyack has produced a rich and exhaustive almanac that shows just how - and often why - our urban landscape has evolved over time... The Making of Our Urban Landscape is a triumph. In its lavish detail and encyclopedic scholarship, it is a modern Baedeker for the whole of urban Britain, drawing us to explore this rich urban heritage for ourselves. Jerry White, Literary Review
Geoffrey Tyack is the former Director of the Stanford University Programme in Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He is President of the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society and a Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust, a council member of the London Topographical Society, and Editor of the Georgian Group Journal. He is the author of numerous articles and books on architectural history, including Oxford: An Architectural Guide (OUP, 1998), and is co-editor of the revised volume on Berkshire in the Pevsner Buildings of England series (Yale, 2010).