London's Teeming Streets, 1830-1914
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 2 September 1993
- ISBN 9780415035903
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 566 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
James Winter brings an historical perspective to present-day concerns about the effects of continued urban expansion and shows that many current problems date back to the Victorian era.
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The streets of Victorian London became increasingly congested with vehicles, fast and furious drivers, pedestrians, costermongers, prostitutes, brass bands, homeless children and other obstacles to safe and rapid motion. Concerned citizens were alarmed by this unprecedented build-up of traffic and pollution. But how did this chaotic state come about - and why was more not done to prevent it?
London's Teeming Streets brings an historical perspective to present-day concerns about the effects of continued urban expansion and shows that many current problems date back to the Victorian era. James Winter reveals that the issue of street reform was fraught with political intrigue. Many reformers were liberals; yet the question of attempting to limit or prohibit activity on the King's Highway which was, by definition, an open and democratic preserve, brought the very purpose of liberal reform into sharp focus.
`London's Teeming Streets, which may fairly be described as a pioneering work, is a rich and intriguing book.' - London Topgraphical Society Newsletter
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 1 IMAGINING; Chapter 2 2 STRAIGHTENING; Chapter 3 3 SMOOTHING AND REGULATING; Chapter 4 4 POLICING; Chapter 5 5 ENJOYING; Chapter 6 6 WORKING; Chapter 7 7 CLEANING; Chapter 8 8 RESCUING; Chapter 9 9 BREATHING; Chapter 10 10 INHABITING; Chapter 11 11 PLANNING; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
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