1st Edition
The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Edited By B.I. Coleman
Copyright 1973
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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In nineteenth-century Britain, ahead of the rest of the world in economic development, many towns and cities grew to a size that only London had attained before. This volume focuses on the intellectual and controversial response of the period's leading men and women to the key issues of urbanization and its surrounding social problems.
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Introduction
1. To the 1820s: the proliferation of the wens
2. From the 1820s to 1848: Passion and partisanship
3. From 1848 to the 1880s: Acceptance and optimism
4. From the 1880s: The doubts return
Biography
B. I. Coleman
