Reprinted with corrections in 1970.

Includes bibliographical references.

Urbanization in England to A.D. 1420, by R. P. Beckinsale.--The spa towns of Britain, by J. A. Patmore.--Boroughs in England and Wales of the 1830s, by T. W. Freeman.--Railways and the morphology of British towns, by J. H. Appleton.--The expanded town in England and Wales, by D. I. Scargill.--Mining settlements in Western Europe: the landscape and the community, by R. T. Jackson.--Urban development in Belgium since 1830, by E. C. Vollans.--Recent changes in the morphology of West German townscapes, by M. Blacksell.--A preface to Chinese cities, by Y. F. Tuan.--The growth of cities in pre-Soviet Russia, by D. J. M. Hooson.--City and region in the Soviet Union, by C. D. Harris.--Urbanization in India, by G. C. K. Peach.--The development of urbanization in Southern Africa, by N. C. Pollock.-- The colonial district town in Uganda, by D. N. McMaster.--The foundation of colonial towns in Hispanic America, by J. M. Houston.--The towns of Lower Canada in th 1830s, by W. H. Parker.--List of main publications of E. W. Gilbert, (p. 428-430)