Poverty of Planning - Property, Class, and Urban Politics in Nineteenth-Century England

In The Poverty of Planning, Benno Engels examines the factors that contributed to the rejection of urban planning in nineteenth-century England.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Forestalling of Urban Planning Reforms in Nineteenth Century England
Chapter 2: Historiography, Neo-Marxist Theory and Investigating Nineteenth Century England
Chapter 3: Industrialization and Early Nineteenth Century English Towns: The Case for Public Policy Intervention
Chapter 4: Landed Property, English Land Law and the Nineteenth Century Urban Property Market
Chapter 5: Local Government Politics and Urban Improvement Prior to 1835
Chapter 6: Middle Class Political Activism at the Local State Level after the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act
Chapter 7: The Central State, Parliamentary Politics and the Protection of Property
Chapter 8: Working Class Activism and the Agitation for Town Improvements
Chapter 9: Economic and Political Restructuring of England: Phase 1 - 1873 to 1895.
Chapter 10: The Edwardian Political Turn and the Emergence of Urban Planning Reform: Phase 2 - 1896 to 1914.
Chapter 11: The Poverty of Urban Planning in Nineteenth Century England: Conclusions

About the author

By Benno Engels

Product details

• Authors: Benno Engels
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781498585446
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8544-6
• No. of pages: 476
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, European History, HISTORY / Historical Geography, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Victorian period (1837–1901), Human Geography, Historical Geography