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The Eternal Slum

Author : Anthony Wohl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351304038
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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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.

The Eternal Slum

Author : Anthony S. Wohl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773503113
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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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:

The Eternal Slum

Author : Anthony S. Wohl
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412822815
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Slum written by Anthony S. Wohl and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 430 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.

Atlantic Crossings

Author : Daniel T. RODGERS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042824
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Crossings written by Daniel T. RODGERS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an account of the vibrant international network that the American soci-political reformers constructed - so often obscured by notions of American exceptionalism - and of its profound impact on the USA from the 1870's through to 1945.

London's Shadows

Author : Drew D. Gray
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441148973
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book London's Shadows written by Drew D. Gray and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1888 London was the capital of the most powerful empire the world had ever known, and the largest city in Europe. In the west a new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome of 'Victorian values'. Across the city the situation was very different. The East End of London had long been considered a nether world, a dark and dangerous region outside the symbolic 'walls' of the original City. Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper as a focal point, this book explores prostitution, poverty, revolutionary politics, immigration, the creation of a criminal underclass and the development of policing. It also considers how the sensationalist 'new journalism' took the news of the Ripper murders to all corners of the Empire and to the United States. This is an important book for those interested in the history of Victorian Britain.

The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum

Author : Alan Mayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190879459
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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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"--

Tales of Two Cities

Author : Jonathan Conlin
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619024403
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Two Cities written by Jonathan Conlin and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach and influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry has global implications. By borrowing, imitating and learning from each other Paris and London invented the true metropolis. Tales of Two Cities examines and compares five urban spaces—the pleasure garden, the cemetery, the apartment, the restaurant and the music hall—that defined urban modernity in the nineteenth century. The citizens of Paris and London first created these essential features of the modern cityscape and so defined urban living for all of us.

Housing Policy in Britain

Author : A. E. Holmans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000316823
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Housing Policy in Britain written by A. E. Holmans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, this book provides a comprehensive history of housing policy in Britain from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the 1970s. For every period the author gives a detailed account of the housing situation in which policies operated, the policies pursued and their rationale. Owner-occupation and privately rented housing are fully discussed. Particular emphasis is placed on the financial and economic aspects of housing policy, including the impact on it of the economic situation. Issues such as population growth and the increase in the number of households are also examined.

Six Lost Leaders

Author : George W. Liebmann
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739102336
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Six Lost Leaders written by George W. Liebmann and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new book, George W. Liebmann discusses the work of six largely forgotten figures: Octavia Hill, William Glyn-Jones, Mary Richmond, George William Brown, Mary Parker Follet, and Bryan Keith-Lucas. Three are British; three American. Some came from affluent backgrounds; some grew up poor. One was barely educated; another spent eleven years at some of the world's more prestigious institutions of higher learning. What united them all was a shared conviction that citizenship involved more than voting, that society consists of more than the marketplace or political institutions, and that professional values are important for shaping a civil discourse. With a sympathetic eye toward the fulfillment of these common aspirations, Liebmann looks at the national health, social work, housing management, and educational initiatives spearheaded by these powerful figures over the past two centuries. This study is a fascinating retort to our cynical age of political disillusionment and an innovative contribution to social and political history.

Slums

Author : Alan Mayne
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238878
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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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.

Slums and Slum Clearance in Victorian London

Author : J.A. Yelling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135681430
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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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.

Slums on Screen

Author : Igor Krstic
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474406874
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Slums on Screen written by Igor Krstic and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world's most miserable habitats?Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 'planet of slums', exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predeccesors, demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our 'planet of slums'.

Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy & Home Ownership

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100051935X
Total Pages : 6268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Housing Policy & Home Ownership written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 6268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published between 1961 and 1994, the volumes in this set sit equally comfortably in sociology and geography as well as housing studies. Even though they were published some years ago, their content continues to offer critical engagement with an evolving policy agenda which is even more important in a time of crisis and deeper polarization both nationally and globally as a result of the pandemic. They: Provide a comprehensive political-economic analysis of the historical origins and 20th Century experience of 19th and 20th Century housing tenure in the UK, France, Germany, the former USSR, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Puerto Rico and the USA. Discuss landlord-tenant relations and the neglect of particular disadvantaged groups such as the elderly, the single homeless and those in low income groups Examine the balance between rehabilitation and redevelopment and the rise and fall of the high-rise flat Cover issues such as rent, rent controls, subsidies and urban renewal Look at the implications of selling council houses and evaluate the impact of the growth of home ownership in the UK Address the practical and political difficulties of devising measures which meet policy objectives.

Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London

Author : Robertson Lisa C. Robertson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474457908
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London written by Robertson Lisa C. Robertson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores radical designs for the home in the nineteenth-century metropolis and the texts that shaped themUncovers a series of innovative housing designs that emerged in response to London's rapid growth and expansion throughout the nineteenth century Brings together the writing of prominent authors such as Charles Dickens and George Gissing with understudied novels and essays to examine the lively literary engagement with new models of urban housing Focuses on the ways that these new homes provided material and creative space for thinking through the relationship between home and identity Identifies ways in which we might learn from the creative responses to the nineteenth-century housing crisis This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty. It examines visual and literary representations to explain how these innovations in housing forged opportunities for refashioning definitions of home and identity. Robertson offers readers a new blueprint for understanding the ways in which novels imaginatively and materially produce the city's built environment.

Slums, Urban Decline And Revitalisation (pug-7)

Author : C.S. Yadav (ed.)
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788170220183
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Slums, Urban Decline And Revitalisation (pug-7) written by C.S. Yadav (ed.) and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century

Author : Angelique Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198187004
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century written by Angelique Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century is a fascinating, lucid, and controversial study of the centrality of eugenic debate to the Victorians. Reappraising the operation of social and sexual power in Victorian society and fiction, it makes a radical contribution to English studies, nineteenth-century and gender studies, and the history of science.

The Future of Council Housing

Author : John English
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000297748
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Council Housing written by John English and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982, at a time when the UK government was pursuing the policy of council house sales, this book explores the implications of selling council houses, criticises the housing management and policies of the 1970s and 80s and argues forcefully for the retention of the council housing sector.