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Author : James Alfred Yelling
Publisher : Unwin Hyman
ISBN 13 : 9780049421929
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Slums and Slum Clearance in Victorian London written by James Alfred Yelling and published by Unwin Hyman. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.A. Yelling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135681430
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Slums and Slum Clearance in Victorian London written by J.A. Yelling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. Victorian London is a classic site of the slum. This study looks at the process of slum clearance. It covers the development of policies and programmes from their initiation through Cross's Act (1875) to the abandonment of clearance by the London County Council at the end of the Victorian period in favour of a suburban solution. It is concerned with the manner in which such policies related to the nature of the slum and its place in the urban structure. The discussion ranges from contemporary understanding of such matters to the detailed content and repercussions of policies, which required the designation of unfit houses, the compensation of property owners, the displacement of tenants, and the rebuilding of sites.
Author : Anthony Wohl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351304038
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book The Eternal Slum written by Anthony Wohl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of how, where, and on what terms to house the urban masses in an industrial society remains unresolved to this day. In nineteenth-century Victorian England, overcrowding was the most obvious characteristic of urban housing and, despite constant agitation, it remained widespread and persistent in London and other great cities such as Manchester, Glasgow, and Liverpool well into the twentieth century. The Eternal Slum is the first full-length examination of working-class housing issues in a British town. The city investigated not only provided the context for the development of a national policy but also, in scale and variety of response, stood in the vanguard of housing reform. The failure of traditional methods of social amelioration in mid-century, the mounting storm of public protest, the efforts of individual philanthropists, and then the gradual formulation and application of new remedies, constituted a major theme: the need for municipal enterprise and state intervention. Meanwhile, the concept of overcrowding, never precisely defined in law but based on middle-class notions of decency and privacy, slowly gave way to the positive idea of adequate living space, with comfort, as much as health or morals, the criterion.Not just dwellings but people were at issue. There is little evidence in this period of the attitude of the worker himself to his housing. Wohl has extensively researched local archives and, in particular, drawn on the vestry reports which have been relatively neglected. Profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs and drawings, this book is the definitive study of the housing reform movement in Victorian and Edwardian London and suggests what it was really like to live under such appalling conditions. This important study will be of interest to social historians, British historians, urban planners, and those interested in how social policies developed in previous eras.
Author : J.A. Yelling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135372284
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Slums And Redevelopment written by J.A. Yelling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early Victorian period to the 1970s, the question of slums occupied an important place in British politics and in housing and town planning policies. The inter-war period has two major points of interest. It sees the restoration of slum clearance following a period of opposition and the onset of the first national slum clearance campaign. It reaches its climax in the plans for large-scale redevelopment made during World War II.
Author : Terry Trainor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471696685
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Victorian London Slums Seven Dials written by Terry Trainor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony S. Wohl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773503113
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Eternal Slum written by Anthony S. Wohl and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674538399
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)
Download or read book London, a Social History written by Roy Porter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.
Author : Richard Rodger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521557863
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Housing in Urban Britain 1780-1914 written by Richard Rodger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did slums and suburbs develop simultaneously? Did the capitalist system produce these, and were class antagonisms to blame? Why did the Victorians believe there was a housing problem, and who or what created it? What housing solutions were attempted, and how successfully? These are amongst the central questions addressed by social and urban historians in recent years, and their arguments and analyses are reviewed here. The history of housing between 1780 and 1914 encapsulates many problems associated with the transition from a largely rural to an overwhelmingly urban nation. The unprecedented pace of this transition imposed immense tensions within society, with implications for the urban environment and for local and national government. Housing is central to an understanding of the social, economic, political and cultural forces in nineteenth-century history; this book is an ideal introduction to the topic.
Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 1844671607
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Planet of Slums written by Mike Davis and published by Verso. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.
Author : Sarah Wise
Publisher : Bodley Head Childrens
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Blackest Streets written by Sarah Wise and published by Bodley Head Childrens. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavates the Old Nichol from the ruins of history and attempts to lay bare the social and political conditions that created and sustained this black hole. This book explores the real lives behind the statistics - the woodworkers, fish smokers, street hawkers and many more.
Author : Nathaniel Robert Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192605879
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia written by Nathaniel Robert Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia, Nathaniel Walker asks: why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find "the best of the city and the country" in the flowery suburbs? While looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, Walker argues that a great missing piece of the story can be found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries — such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H. G. Wells — are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As varied as their futuristic visions could be, Walker reveals how most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.
Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521417075
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of urbanisation and suburbanisation in Britain from the Victorian period to the twentieth century.
Author : Benno Engels
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498585450
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Poverty of Planning written by Benno Engels and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Benno Engels examines the absence of urban planning in nineteenth-century England. In his analysis of urbanization in England, Engels considers the influences of property owners, inheritance laws, local government structures, fiscal crises of the local and central state, shifts in voter sentiments, fluctuating economic conditions, and class-based pressure group activity.
Author : Alan Mayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190879459
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum written by Alan Mayne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Slum" is among the most evocative and judgmental words of the modern world. It originated in the slang language of the world's then-largest city, London, early in the nineteenth century. Its use thereafter proliferated, and its original meanings unraveled as colonialism and urbanization transformed the world, and as prejudice against those disadvantaged by these transformations became entrenched. Cuckoo-like, "slum" overtook and transformed other local idioms: for example, bustee, favela, kampong, shack. "Slum" once justified heavy-handed redevelopment schemes that tore apart poor but viable neighborhoods. Now it underpins schemes of neighbourhood renewal that, seemingly benign in their intentions, nonetheless pay scant respect to the viewpoints of their inhabitants. This Oxford Handbook probes both present-day understandings of slums and their historical antecedents. It discusses the evolution of slum "improvement" policies globally from the early nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It encompasses multiple perspectives: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, geography, history, politics, sociology, urban studies and urban planning. It emphasizes the influences of gender and race inequality, and the persistence of subaltern agency notwithstanding entrenched prejudice and unsympathetically-applied institutionalized power. Uniquely, it balances contributions from scholars who deny the legitimacy of "slum" in social and policy analysis, with those who accept its relevance as a measuring stick of social disadvantage and as a vehicle for social reform. This Handbook does not simply footnote the past; it critiques conventional understandings of urban social disadvantage and reform across time and place in the modern world. It suggests pathways for future research and for alleviative reform"--
Author : Alan Mayne
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238878
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Slums written by Alan Mayne and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that are characterized as slums. Slums are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, though, it is public policies that are often at fault, not the people who live in these neighborhoods. In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word “slum,” from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use as a slur against the favela communities in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics in 2016. Mayne shows how the word slum has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disparage poor communities, with the result that these agendas are now indivisible from the word’s essence. He probes beyond the stereotypes of deviance, social disorganization, inertia, and degraded environments to explore the spatial coherence, collective sense of community, and effective social organization of poor and marginalized neighborhoods over the last two centuries. In mounting a case for the word’s elimination from the language of progressive urban social reform, Slums is a must-read book for all those interested in social history and the importance of the world’s vibrant and vital neighborhoods.
Author : Martin J. Daunton
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843833833
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (338 download)
Download or read book State and Market in Victorian Britain written by Martin J. Daunton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the effects and consequences of radical economic change, moral, social, and fiscal, in the Victorian period.
Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407013076
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book London in the Twentieth Century written by Jerry White and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
