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Paperback English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century: A Social Geography Book

ISBN: 0521338395

ISBN13: 9780521338394

English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century: A Social Geography

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series)

To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of great cities'. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be classified as 'urban'. In the first full-length... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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what was it like being an early industrial city ?

So what was it like in the early years of the Industrial Revolution? Dennis looks not at London, which has already been exhaustively studied for this period, but at other British cities. Especially Liverpool and Manchester. The cities are analysed according to how their urban structure developed. Like the types of affordable housing for newly urbanised masses migrating from the countryside. Then there were issues of how the workers got to and from their workplaces. Giving rise in part to the proliferation of public transport. Remember too that during those years, there were few templates for city planners, to the extent that they existed, to draw on. Hence we see comments by contemporaries about the chaotic nature of some cities. But the book looks deeper, and describes a dynamic logic to the layouts.
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