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The Transformation of Edinburgh

The Transformation of Edinburgh Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century

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Publisher's Synopsis

This clear and lucid study explores the physical transformation of Edinburgh in the nineteenth century. It is based on a formidable amount of new archival research and enriched with fascinating illustrative material. In a powerful analysis of how the law adapted under intense pressure from institutions and individuals to new possibilities for profit, Richard Rodger shows how urban expansion was financed. Victorian 'feudalism', he argues, was reasserted. As a consequence, durable housing was created, though at densities and at costs which had adverse consequences for the tenement dwellers within. Trusts, educational endowments and the Church were each instrumental in this process. The urban environmental damage associated with intensive building and overcrowding is also explored, as are the public health and co-operative responses which they prompted. Historians - whether political, urban, economic, social or legal - will find challenging new insights here, which have a resonance far beyond the confines of one city. Winner of the 2003 Frank Watson Prize.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521780247
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.094134
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 540
Weight: 1135g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 35mm