When this book was first published in 1982, despite considerable research on 19th 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 19th Century urban development.
When this book was first published in 1982, despite considerable research on 19th 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 19th Century urban development. The book provides an integrated series of chapters which discuss trends and research problems in the study of 19th Century cities. It will be of value to researchers in urban geography, social history and historical geography.
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
James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley
