Main entry:

Rodger, Richard.

Title & Author:

The transformation of Edinburgh : land, property, and trust in the nineteenth century / Richard Rodger.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Description:

xix, 540 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Urban frameworks. 1. Introduction. 2. Institutional power and landownership: the nineteenth-century inheritance. 3. Victorian feudalism. 4. Building capital: trusts, loans and the kirk. 5. The building industry and instability -- Pt. 2. Building enterprise and housing management. 6. The search for stability. 7. Industrial suburb: developing Dairy. 8. The genesis of a property owning democracy? 9. Landlord and tenant. 10. Postscript: 'firmiter et durabile': the construction of legitimacy -- Pt. 3. Complementary visions of society. 11. Co-operation and mutuality: the 'Colonies' and the Edinburgh Co-operative Building Company. 12. Civic consciousness, social consciences and the built environment. 13. Adornment, ego and myth: the decoration of the tenement. 14. Conclusion: reinventing the city -- Index of Edinburgh street names and districts.
Table of contents, prefatory matter and p. 3-21 of the Introduction available online at the publisher's Web site.

Resources:
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Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521780241
9780521780247

Subject:

Urbanization Scotland Edinburgh.
Housing Scotland Edinburgh History 19th century.
Urbanisation Écosse Édimbourg.
Housing.
Social conditions
Urbanization.
Woningbouw.
Stedenbouw.
Edinburgh (Scotland) Social conditions.
Edinburgh (Scotland) History.
Edinburgh (Scotland) History 19th century.
Edinburgh (Scotland) Economic conditions 19th century.
Scotland Edinburgh.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Edinburgh and the transformation of the 19th century city

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227512
Call No.: HN398.E27 R63 2000
Status: Available