The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities

ISBN-13: 9780367772086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str.

James H. Johnson; Colin Pooley

Opis

When this book was first published in 1982, despite considerable research on 19^th Century towns in Britain and America, there had been little attempt to search for links between these empirical studies and to relate them more to more general theories of 19^th Century urban development.

Spis treści

Part 1 – Introduction 1. The Internal Structure of Nineteenth-Century British Cities – An Overview Part 2: Housing and the Nineteenth-Century Urban Environment 2. Rents and Ground Rents: Housing and the Land Market in Nineteenth Century Britain 3. The Internal Structure of the Housebuilding Industry in Nineteenth-Century Cities 4. The Growth of Public Intervention in the British Urban Environment During the Nineteenth-Century: A Structural Approach Part 3: Retailing and the Nineteenth-Century Urban Economy 5. Street Trading in London: A Case Study of Causal Labour, 1830-60 6. Retailing in the Nineteenth-Century Town: Some Problems and Possibilities 7. The Role of Retailing in the Urban Economy Part 4: The Social Structure of the Nineteenth-Century Town 8. Choice and Constraint in the Nineteenth-Century City: A Basis for Residential Differentiation 9. Residential Differentiation in Nineteenth Century Towns: From Shapes on the Ground to Shapes in Society 10. Stability and Change in Urban Communities: A Geographical Perspective 11. Indicators of Population Change and Stability in Nineteenth-Century Cities: Some Sceptical Comments Part 5: Conclusions 12. The Future Study of the Nineteenth-Century British City: Some Concluding Comments

O autorze

James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley