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Synopsis
In the first full-length treatment of nineteenth-century urbanism from a geographical perspective, Richard Dennia focuses on the industrial towns and cities of Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands and South Wales, that epitomised the spirit of the new age.
Table of Contents
List of figures; List of tables; Preface; A note on prices and distances; 1. Urban geography and social history; 2. Sources of diversity among Victorian cities; 3. Contemporary accounts of nineteenth-century cities; 4. Public transport and the journey to work; 5. The geography of housing; 6. Class consciousness and social stratification; 7. The spatial structure of nineteenth-century cities; 8. Residential mobility, persistence and community; 9. Community and interaction; 10. The containing context; Notes; Bibliography; Index.