Why did slums and suburbs develop simultaneously? Were class antagonisms to blame? Why did the Victorians believe there was a housing problem? The history of housing between 1780 and 1914 encapsulates many problems associated with the transition from a largely rural to an overwhelmingly urban nation, whose unprecedented pace imposed immense tensions within society. This book reviews the recent arguments and guides the student of social history to further reading, making it an ideal introduction to a central issue in nineteenth-century history.
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Steel frame architecture versus the London Building Regulations: Selfridges, the Ritz and American technology', Construction History, 6, 1990, 23-46, - Page 88
all the space within the external and party walls of a building'. - Page 94
The land question: a Liberal theory of communal property', History Workshop Journal, 27, 1989, 106-35 - Page 91
of their possibilities and most adept at turning them into shapes on the ground'. - Page 42
were the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes (1841) - Page 45
the rate of mortality depends upon the efficiency of the ventilation (and - Page 32
in his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842), - Page 2
feuing, which increased land costs and ground burdens, a method of building finance for small builders based on the technicalities of feuing which intensified building industry instability, and average real wages approximately 20-30 per cent below comparable English trades in the 1850s - Page 36
by A. Mayne, The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities 1870-1914 (Leicester 1993), - Page 88
such as Christian teaching regarding family life and sobriety, the sanctity of property rights, prevailing laissez-faire orthodoxy in economic and social affairs, and ratepayers' insistence on economism in government. - Page 44
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+ By Richard Rodger
+ Contributor Maurice Kirby
+ Published 1995 Cambridge University Press
+ 113 pages
+ ISBN 0521557860