Main entry:

Rodger, Richard.

Title & Author:

Housing in urban Britain, 1780-1914 / prepared for the Economic History Society by Richard Rodger.

Edition:

1st Cambridge University Press ed.

Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Description:

vii, 100 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

New studies in economic and social history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-83) and index.
1. Introduction: an urban framework -- 2. Urban expansion and the pattern of demand -- (i). Population, migration and the cities -- (ii). Wages, employment and the structure of demand -- 3. Supply influences -- (i). Landownership, estate development and housing -- (ii). The building industry -- (iii). The containing context: building regulations -- 4. House types: terraces and tenements -- (i). Residential segregation and mobility -- (ii). Evolution of the terraced house -- (iii). The housing hierarchy -- 5. The suburbs: villas and values -- 6. The containment of 'the housing problem' 1850-1880 -- 7. A late-Victorian and Edwardian housing crisis -- (i). Market intervention -- (ii). Property politics: tension and crisis 1880-1914 -- 8. Comfort and housing amenity -- 9. Conclusion.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521552672 (hbk.)
9780521552677 (hbk.)
0521557860 (pbk.)
9780521557863 (pbk.)

Subject:

Housing Great Britain History.
Logement Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Economic history.
Housing.
Social conditions
City planning Great Britain History.
Great Britain Social conditions.
Great Britain Economic conditions.
Grande-Bretagne Conditions sociales.
Grande-Bretagne Conditions économiques.
Great Britain.
Urban regions Housing

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Economic History Society.
New studies in economic and social history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122691
Call No.: ID HD7333.A3; ID:96-B973
Status: Available