Download or read book The English Urban Renaissance written by Peter Borsay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This book offers a guide to some of the striking features of that revival, concentrating on the interaction between urban culture and society and looking at its origins and the forces which stimulated it.