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The Structure of nineteenth-century cities.
1. Cities and towns Great Britain History
I. Johnson, J.H. II. Pooley, C.G.
307.760941 HT133
ISBN 0-7099-1412-1
First published in the United States of America in 1982
All rights reserved. For information write:
St. Martins Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.10010
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
The Structure of nineteenth century cities.
1. Cities and towns Great Britain History 19th
century Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Johnson,
James Henry, 1930- . II.Pooley, C.G.
HT133.S85 1982 307.760941 81-21280
ISBN 0-312-76781-1 AACR2
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd, Guildford and Kings Lynn
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
PART ONE - INTRODUCTION
James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley
PART TWO - HOUSING AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY URBAN ENVIRONMENT
2. Rents and ground rents: housing and the land market in nineteenth-century Britain
Richard Rodger
3. The internal structure of the housebuilding industry in nineteenth-century cities
Peter J. Aspinall
4. The growth of public intervention in the British urban environment during the nineteenth century: a structural approach
Anthony Sutcliffe
PART THREE - RETAILING AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY URBAN ECONOMY
5. Street trading in London: a case study of casual labour, 1830-60
David R. Green
6. Retailing in the nineteenth-century town: some problems and possibilities
Roger Scola
7. The role of retailing in the urban economy
Gareth Shaw
PART FOUR - THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY TOWN
8. Choice and constraint in the nineteenth-century city: a basis for residential differentiation
Colin G. Pooley
9. Residential differentiation in nineteenth-century towns: from shapes on the ground to shapes in society
David Cannadine
10. Stability and change in urban communities: a geographical perspective
Richard Dennis
11. Indicators of population change and stability in nineteenth-century cities: some sceptical comments
Michael Anderson
PART FIVE - CONCLUSIONS
12. The future study of the nineteenth-century British city: some concluding comments
James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley
The Contributors
Tables
2.1 Scottish urban land rents; 1864-1911
2.2 Average floor-space rent: various English and Scottish towns 1911
2.3 Ground rents as a percentage of total rents
3.1 The ownership of street plans in Sheffield, 1865-1900
3.2 Housebuilders in Sheffield, 1865-1900
5.1 St. Giles 1830-60: occupational groups of male applicants for poor relief
5.2 St. Giles 1830-60: occupational groups of female applicants for poor relief
6.1 Population per food retail outlet
6.2 Outlets expressed as a percentage of total (1848-51)
6.3 Census occupations expressed as a percentage (1851)
7.1 Population and shop growth in selected urban centres
7.2 The number of itinerant traders in England and Wales
7.3 Alternative methods of ranking shop types
7.4 The amalgamation of shop premises in selected towns
7.5 The structure of some typical nineteenth-century shopping centres
7.6 Proportions of shops within 200 metres of market place changing their functional status
7.7 Address omissions in Whites Hull directory (1881)
8.1 Population change on North Merseyside, 1801-1911
8.2 Housebuilding in Liverpool, 1841-66
10.1 Intercensal mobility in Huddersfield, 1851-61
Figures
2.1 Individual land-users rent-distance substitutions
2.2 Composite rent-distance substitutions: various land uses superimposed
3.1 Cumulative frequency distribution curves of building firm sizes, 1851
3.2a Histogram of building project sizes, 1865-1900
3.2b Three year cumulative frequency distribution curves of building project sizes, 1865-1900
3.3 The housebuilding industry in Sheffield
3.4 Numbers of building firms in different size groups, 1865-1900
3.5 Percentage of building firms in different size groups, 1865-1900
3.6a Rank order of the 1st., 2nd., 4th., 8th., and 16th. building firms per annum, 1865-1900: relative frequency of productions
3.6b Rank order of the 20 largest building firms per annum, 1865-1900: absolute frequency of productions
7.1 Stages of retail development
7.2 The distribution of itinerant traders in England in 1861
7.3 The development of shopping streets in Hull
7.4 The relationship between shops and retail structure in Hull
7.5 Shopping centres in Hull in 1881
7.6 The development of department stores in Londons West End
