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historiography and bibliographies
Dyos, H.J. "Agenda for Urban Historians," in H.J. Dyos, ed. The Study of Urban History (1968), 1-46. Marks the real beginning of urban history as a conscious approach in Britain.
Rodger, Richard. Research in Urban History (1994). Covers over 3,000 theses on British topics, or theses written at British universities on non-British topics.
Stave, Bruce. "A Conversation with H.J. Dyos: Urban History in Great Britain," Journal of Urban History, 5 (Aug., 1979), 469-500.
architecture and building
Dixon, Roger and Stefan Muthesius.Victorian Architecture (1978).
Doughty, M. ed. Building the Industrial City (1986).
Prince of Wales, Charles. A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture (1989). An under-rated attack on the ugliness of modern urban architecture.
Whitehand, J.W.R. "The Makers of British Towns: Architects, Builders and Property Owners, c. 1850-1939," Journal of Historical Geography 18 ( no. 4, 1992), 417-38.
---------. The Making of the Urban Landscape (1992).
class
Johnson, J.H. and Pooley, C.G. eds., The Structure of 19th Century Cities (1982).
Jones, Peter; Nenadic, Stana; Hills, Philip. "Studying the Middle Class in 19th Century Britain," Urban History Yearbook (1987), 22-50. Essays on Leicester and Peterborough; Glasgow; Ipswich.
Morris, R.J. ed. Class, Power and Social Structure in British Nineteenth Century Towns (1986).
Ward, David. "The Victorian Slum: An Enduring Myth?" Annals of the Association of American Geographers 66 (1976), 323-36.
culture and society
Brown, Callum G. "Did Urbanization Secularize Britain?" Urban History Yearbook (1988), 1-14.
Cannadine, David. "Victorian Cities: How Different?" Social History 4 (1977), 457-82.
Dennis, Richard. English Industrial Cities of the 19th Century: A Social Geography (1984).
Dyos, H.J. and Wolff, M. eds., The Victorian City: Images and Realities (1973), 2 vols. An interdisciplinary collection of articles on the British Victorian city.
Dyos, H.J. "The Victorian City in Historical Perspective," in David Canadine and David Reeder, eds., Exploring the Urban Past, Essays in Urban History by H.J.Dyos (1982), 3-18. Suggests that the deepest insights into Victorian life - "our best informants " - are the novelists, pp. 12-14.
Hemingway, Andrew. Landscape Imagery and Urban Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (1992). An excellent analysis of landscape painting and the significance of urban contexts for the art of this period.
Kearns, Gerry and Charles Withers. Urbanising Britain (1991).
Thompson, F.M.L. "Desireable Properties: The Town and Country Connection in British Society since the Late 18th Century," Historical Research, 64 (June, 1991), 156-71.
Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City (1973).
Willmott, D. Kinship and Urban Communities (1987).
Wolff, M. Urbanity and Journalism: The Victorian Connection (1979).
economic development
Cain, P.J. Economic Foundations of British Overseas Expansion, 1815-1914 (1980).
--------. British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion, 1688-1914 (1993).
Checkland, Sydney. The City and the Businessman Viewed Historically (1985).
Kellett, J.R. The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities (1969).
Langton, John and R.J. Morris. Atlas of Industrializing Britian, 1780-1914 (1986).
housing
Daunton, M.J. House and Home in the Victorian City: Working-Class Housing, 1850-1914 (1983).
---------. "Cities of Homes and Cities of Tenements: British and American Comparisons, 1870-1914," Journal of Urban History 14 (May, 1988), 283-319.
Dennis, Richard and Daniels, Stephen. " 'Community' and the Social Geography of Victorian Cities," Urban History Yearbook (1981), 7-23.
Englander, D. Landlord and Tenant in Urban Britain, 1838-1918 (1983).
Gauldie, E. Cruel Habitations: A History of Working-Class Housing, 1780-1918 (1974).
O'Carroll, Annette. "Tenements to Bungalows: Class and the Growth of Home Ownership before the Second World War," Urban History 24 (Aug., 1997), 221-41.
Rodger, Richard. "Rents and Ground Rents: Housing and the Land Market in 19th Century Britain," in J.H.Johnson and C.G.Pooley, eds., The Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities (1982), 39-74. Covers England and Scotland.
---------. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism, and Construction (1995).
Sutcliffe, Anthony. ed. Multi-Storey Living,The British Working-Class Experience (1974).
Swenarton, Mark. Homes Fit for Heroes: The Politics and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain (1981).
municipal government
Cannadine, David. Ed. Patricians, Power and Politics in Nineteenth Century Towns (1982).
Fraser, Derek ed. Municipal Reform and the Industrial City (1982).
---------. "Politics and the Victorian City," Urban History Yearbook (1979), 32-45.
Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain (1983).
planning
Ashworth, W. The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning: A Study in Economic and Social History of the 19th and 20th Centuries (1954).
Boardman, P. The Worlds of Patrick Geddes (1978).
Beevers, R. The Garden City Utopia: A Critical Biography of Ebenezer Howard (1988).
Buder, Stanley. Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern World (1990).
Cherry, Gordon. Urban Change and Planning. A History of Urban Development in Britain since 1750 (1972).
---------. Cities and Plans: The Shaping of Urban Britain in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1988).
---------. ed. Shaping an Urban World (1980).
---------. ed. Pioneers in British Planning (1981). Includes good chapters on Thomas Adams, Patrick Geddes, Raymond Unwin, and others.
-----. Town Planning in Britain Since 1900 (1996).
Conway, Hazel. People's Parks: The Design and Development of Victorian Parks in Britain (1991).
Hardy, Dennis. Campaigning for Town and Country Planning, 1899-1990, 2 vols. (1991).
Meller, Helen. Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner (1990).
------------. "Urban Renewal and Citizenship: The Quality of Life in British Cities, 1890-1990," Urban History 22 (May, 1995), 63-84.
Novak, F.G. ed., Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes: The Correspondence (1995).
Osborn, Frederick. The New Towns; The Answer to Megalopolis (1963).
Planning Exchange. The New Towns Record, 1946 - 1996 (CD-Rom, 1997, 2 discs, published by The Planning Exchange, Glasgow). A large collection which includes over 40 major books, articles, reports, and a full set of annual reports for the 32 development corporations. Also interviews with over 80 practitioners and academics.
Sutcliffe, Anthony. ed. The Rise of Modern Urban Planning, 1800-1914 (1980).
---------. "From Town-Country to Town Planning: Changing Priorities in the British Garden City Movement, 1899-1914," Planning Perspectives 5 (Sept., 1990), 257-69.
Ward, Stephen. ed. Garden Cities: Past, Present and Future (1991).
---------. "The Garden City Tradition Re-examined," Planning Perspectives, 5 9Sept., 1990), 249-56.
suburbanization
Reeder, David. Suburbanity and the Victorian City (1980).
Thompson, F.M.L. ed. The Rise of Suburbia (1982).
Chamberlain, Russell. The English Country Town (1983).
Dennis, R. English Industrial Cities of the 19th Century (1984).
Girouard, Mark. The English Town (1990).
Lloyd, David W. The Making of English Towns: A Vista of 2000 Years (1984).
Morris, R.J. and Richard Rodger, eds. The Victorian City: A Reader in English Urban History, 1820-1914 (1990).
Waller, P.J. Town, City, and Nation: England, 1850-1914 (1983).
Walvin, J. English Urban Life, 1776-1851 (1984).
Barker, Felix and Peter Jackson. A History of London in Maps (1990).
-----------. 2000 Years of a City and Its People (1974).
Besant, Walter. London in the Nineteenth Century (1909; 1985).
Garside, Patricia. "West End, East End: London, 1890-1940," in Anthony Sutcliffe, ed., Metropolis (1984), 221-258.
Borer, M.C. The City of London - A History (1977).
Dyos, H.J. "Greater and Greater London: Metropolis and Provinces in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," in David Cannadine and David Reeder, eds., Exploring the Urban Past: Essays in Urban History by H.J.Dyos (1982), 37-55.
Hall, G.M. Metropolis Now: London and its Region (1990).
Hayes, John. London: A Pictorial History (1969). Includes a fine survey as an introduction.
Hibbert, Christopher. London, The Biography of a City (1980).
Hogarth, Keith and David Green. London: A New Metropolitan Geography (1991).
Humphries, S. and I. Taylor. The Making of Modern London (1986).
Hunter, H. History of London and its Environs (1981).
Michie, Ronald. The City of London. Continuity and Change (1991).
Museum of London. London - World City, 1800-1840(1992).
Nash, David and David Reeder, eds. Leicester in the Twentieth Century (1993).
Porter, Roy. London: A Social History(1994). This is the best of the modern biographies in terms of London's changing character.
Rasmussen, Steen Eiler. London: the Unique City (1982). Originally written 50 years ago by a Danish architect and humanist who was impressed by liveability of the city. Emphasized the distinctive character of London.
Russell, John. London (1994). A readable, individualistic interpretation of the city.
Sheppard, Francis. London, 1808-1870: The Infernal Wen (1971).
Sutcliffe, Anthony. "The 'Midland Metropolis': Birmingham, 1890-1980," in George Gordon, ed., Regional Cities in the UK, 1890-1980 (1986), 25-40.
Weightman, Gavin and Steve Humphries. The Making of Modern London, 1815-1914 (1983).
-------------. The Making of Modern London, 1914-1939 (1984).
Weinreb, B. and Christopher Hibbert. The London Encyclopaedia (1983). A great storehouse of well organized information.
architecture and building
Adams, Annmarie. Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses and Women, 1870-1900 (1996). An analysis of the gendered perspectives of doctors and women on the place of the urban middle class house in the domestic sanitation movement.
Betjemen, John. London's Historic Railway Stations (1972).
Clarke, Linda. Building Capitalism: Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of the Built Environment (1992).
Edwards, Brian. London Docklands: Urban Design in an Age of Deregulation (1992).
Girouard, Mark. Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne' Movement, 1860-1900 (1979).
Jenkins, Simon. Landlords to London: The Story of a Capital and its Growth (1975).
Jenner, Michael. London Heritage: The Changing Style of a City (1988). An insightful description of London's physical evolution, concentrating on the remnants still existing from the past.
Jones, Edward and C.Woodward. A Guide to the Architecture of London (1983).
Knowles, C.C. and P.H.Pitt. The History of Building Regulations in London, 1189-1972 (1972).
Mace, Rodney. Trafalgar Square: Emblem of Empire (1976).
Olsen, Donald. The Growth of Victorian London (1983).
Pevsner, Nikolaus et al. The Buildings of London 3 of 4 vols. published (1973, to present).
Schofield, John. The Building of London: From the Conquest to the Great Fire (1984).
Summerson, John. The Architecture of Victorian London (1976).
----------. "The Victorian Rebuilding of the City of London," London Journal, 3 (1977), 163-85.
Wood, Oliver L. comp. From Splendour to Banality: The Rebuilding of the City of London, 1945-1983 (1983).
Watson, Isobel. Gentlemen in the Building Line: The Development of South Hackney (1989).
Weinreb, Matthew. London Architecture: Features and Facades (1993).
class, ethnicity, and gender
Armstrong, W.A. Stability and Change in an English Country Town: A Social Study of York, 1801-1851 (1974).
Atkins, P.J. "Class Solidarity in London's West End, 1792- 1939", Urban History Yearbook (1990), 36-65.
Chesney, Kellow. Victorian Underworld (1970). A lively look at the prison-houses, slums and criminals of Victorian London.
Crossick, Geoffrey. An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society: Kentish London, 1840-1880 (1978).
Dyos, H.J. "The Slums of Victorian London," in David Cannadine and David Reeder, eds., Exploring the Urban Past, Essays in Urban History by H.J.Dyos (1982), 129-53.
Fletcher, Geoffrey. The London Dickens Knew (1970).
Foster, J. Class Struggle in the Industrial Revolution: Early Industrial Conflict in Three English Towns (1977).
Green, David. From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870 (1995).
Green, S.J.D. Religion in the Age of Decline: Organization and Experience in Industrial Yorkshire, 1870-1920 (1996).
Hobsbawm, E.J. "Labour in the Great City," New Left Review, 166 (1987), 39-51.
Jones, Gareth S. Outcast London: a Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society (1971).
Kidd, A. and Roberts, K. eds., City, Class and Culture: Studies of Social Policy and Cultural Production in Victorian Manchester (1985).
Koditschek, T. Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750-1850 (1990).
Lee, T.R. Race and Residence: The Concentration and Dispersal of Immigrants in London (1977).
Marcus, Steven. Engels, Manchester and the Working Class (1974).
Mayhew, Henry.London Labour and the London Poor (1861). The pioneering study based on research in the 1840s and 1850s.
McAuley, Ian. Passport's Guide to Ethnic London (1995). A readable description of the various groups that have migrated, together with some history of each group, and information on current life styles.
Merriman, Nick. Ed. The Peopling of London: Fifteen Thousand Years of Settlement From Overseas (1993). The best information available on the various immigrant groups in London, published by the Museum of London. An excellent overview introduction, entitled "The World in a City," by Merriman and Rozina Visram, shows how London has always been a prime target for immigration from abroad.
Morris, R.J. Class, Sect and Party: The Making of the British Middle Class: Leeds, 1820-1850 (1990). An important interpretation of an elite within the middle class.
Palmer, Alan. The East End: Four Centuries of London Life (1989).
Pooley, G. and Jean Turnbull. "Changing Home and Workplace in Victorian London: The Life of Henry Jaques, Shirtmaker," Urban History 24 (Aug., 1997), 148-78.
Rose, M. ed. The Poor and the City: The English Poor Law in its Urban Context, 1834-1914 (1985).
Schwartz, L.D. London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force, and Living Conditions, 1700-1850 (1992).
Sharpe, Pamela. "De-Industrialization and Re-Industrialization: Women's Employment and the Changing Character of Colchester, 1700-1850," Urban History 21 (April, 1994), 77-96.
Thrift, N.J. "The Geography of Nineteenth Century Class Formation," in N.J.Thrift and P. Williams, eds. Class and Space: The Making of Urban Society (1987).
Walkowitz, Judith. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London (1992). Concentrates on the image of women in fiction and the media of the day.
culture
Beckson, Karl. London in the 1890s: A Cultural History (1992).
Collins, Philip. "Dickens and the City," in William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock, eds., Visions of the Modern City (1983), 97-117.
Ford, Ford Madox. The Soul of London: A Survey of a Modern City (1905). A writer's emphasis on the less obvious, personalized qualities of a great city.
Hartnell, Roy. "Art and Civic Culture in Birmingham in the Late Nineteenth Century," Urban History, 22 (Aug., 1995), 229-37.
Schwarzbach, F.S. Dickens and the City (1979).
Stansky, Peter. London's Burning: Life, Death and Art in the Second World War (1994).
Thompson, John. Orwell's London (1984).
Weightman, Gavin. Bright Lights, Big City: London Entertainment, 1830-1950 (1992).
Wilson, Jean M. Virginia Woolf - Life and London: A Biography of Place (1987).
economic growth
Barker, T. "Business as Usual: London and the Industrial Revolution," History Today, 39 (1989), 45-51.
Cassis, Youssef. City Bankers, 1890-1914 (1994).
Green, David. "The Metropolitan Economy: Continuity and Change, 1800-1939," in Keith Hoggart and David Green, eds. London: A New Metropolitan Geography (1991), 8-33.
Hall, P. The Industries of London Since 1861 (1962).
Keene, Derek. "The Financial District of the City of London: Continuity and Change, 1300-1871," in A. Saunders, ed. The Royal Exchange (1997).
Sharpless, John B. "Intercity Development and Dependency: Liverpool and Manchester," in John Wirth and Robert L. Jones, eds., Manchester and Sao Paulo, Problems of Rapid Urban Growth (1978), 131-156.
health
Champion, J.A.I. ed. Epidemic Disease in London (1993).
Hardy, Anne. The Epidemic Streets (1993).
Luckin, Bill and Graham Mooney. "Urban History and Historical Epidemiology: The Case of London, 1860-1920," Urban History 24 (May, 1997), 37-55.
Powell, Martin. "Did Politics Matter? Municipal Public Health Expenditure in the 1930s," Urban History 22 (Dec., 1995), 360-79.
housing
Daunton. M.J. ed. Councillors and Tenants: Local Authority Housing in English Cities, 1919-1939 (1984).
Dyos, H.J. "The Speculative Builders and Developers of Victorian London," in David Cannadine and David Reeder, eds., Exploring the Urban Past, Essays in Urban History by H.J.Dyos (1982), 154-78.
Wohl, Anthony. The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London (1977).
Yelling, J.A. Slums and Slum Clearance in Victorian London (1986).
--------. Slums and Redevelopment. Policy and Practise in England, 1918-1945 (1992).
municipal government and politics
Alderman, Geoffrey. London Jewry and London Politics, 1889-1986 (1989).
Clifton, Gloria. Professionalism, Patronage and Public Service in Victorian London: The Staff of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1856-1889 (1992).
Davis, John. Reforming London: The London Government Problem, 1855-1900 (1988).
Dickinson, H.W. Water Supply of Greater London (1954).
Fraser, Derek. Urban Politics in Victorian England (1976).
Hennock, E.P. Fit and Proper Persons: Ideal and Reality in 19th Century Urban Government (1973). Examines Birmingham and Leeds, in particular.
---------. "Central/Local Government Relations in England: An Outline, 1800-1950," Urban History Yearbook, 1982, 38-49.
Lees, Lynn Hollen. "The Survival of the Unfit: Welfare Policies and Family Maintenance in Nineteenth Century London," in Peter Mandler, ed. The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth Century Metropolis (1990), 68-122.
McCalman, Iain. Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 (1988).
Miller, Wilbur. Cops and Bobbies: Police Authority in New York and London, 1830-1870 (1977).
Owen, D. The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889 (1982 ed.)
Pennypacker, Susan. A Vision for London, 1889-1914: Labour, Everyday Life and the LCC Experiment (1995).
Saint, Andrew ed. Politics and the People of London: The London County Council, 1889-1965 (1989).
Smith, P.T. Policing Victorian London: Political Policing, Public Order, and the London Metropolitan Police (1985).
Thompson, Paul R. Socialists, Liberals and Labour: The Struggle for London, 1885-1914 (1967).
Young, Ken and Patricia Garside. Metropolitan London: Politics and Urban Change, 1837-1981 (1982).
-----------. Local Politics and the Rise of Party: the London Municipal Society and the Conservative Intervention in Local Elections, 1894-1963 (1975).
planning
Beach, Jeremy and George Noszlopy. "Public Art and Planning in Birmingham," Planning History, 18 (1, 1996), 22-28.
Cherry, Gordon, Jordan, H., and Kafkoula, K. "Gardens, Civic Art and Town Planning. The Work of Thomas Mawson (1861-1933)," Planning Perspectives 8 (July, 1993), 307-32.
Clapson, Mark. "Planners and Social Change: Milton Keynes Since the 1960s," Planning History, 19 (1, 1997), 19-25.
Deakin, Derick. ed. Wythenshawe: The Story of a Garden City (1989).
Garside, Patricia. "The Significance of Post-War London Reconstruction Plans for East End Industry," Planning Perspectives, 12 (Jan., 1997), 19-36.
Haywood, Russell. "Railways, Urban Form and Town Planning in London, 1900-1947," Planning Perspectives, 12 (Jan., 1997), 37-69.
Harrison, Michael. "Bourneville, 1919 - 1939," Planning History, 17 (3, 1995), 22-31.
Miller, Mervyn. Letchworth: The First Garden City (1989).
---------. Raymond Unwin: Garden Cities and Town Planning (1992).
---------. "The Elusive Green Background: Raymond Unwin and the Greater London Regional Plan," Planning Perspectives 4 (Jan., 1989), 15-44.
-----. "The Saga of the Suburb Salubrious',"planning History, 14 (3, 1992), 4-12. Hampstead Garden Suburb.
Munton, R.J.C. London's Green Belt: Containment in Practise (1983).
Shepherd, John. "London: Metropolitan Evolution and Planning Response," in H. Wentworth Eldredge, ed. World Capitals: Toward Guided Urbanization (1975), 90-138.
Thomas, Ray. London's New Towns: A Study of Self-Contained and Balanced Communities (1969).
----. Planning and Urban Change (1994).
transportation
Barker, T.C. and R.M. Robbins. A History of London Transport, vol 2 The Twentieth Century to 1970 (1974).
Day, John. The Story of London's Underground (1979).
Dyos, H.J. "Railways and Housing in Victorian London," in David Cannadine and David Reeder, eds. Exploring the Urban Past (1982), 101-18.
--------. "Some Social Costs of Railway-Building in London," in David Cannadine and David Reeder, eds., Exploring the Urban Past (1982), 119-28.
suburbanization
Dyos, H.J. Victorian Suburb: A Study of the Growth of Camberwell (1961). The classic study of a South London suburb.
Dyos, H.J. and David Reeder. "Slums and Suburbs," in H.J.Dyos amd M. Wolff, eds. The Victorian City: Images and Realities, vol. 1 (1973), 359-86.
Jackson, Alan. Semi-Detached London: Suburban Development, Life and Transport, 1900-1939 1973).
Pahl, R.E. Urbs in Rure: The Metropolitan Fringe in Hertfordshire 1964).
Olsen, Donald. Town Planning in London (1964). History of the Bedford Estates.
Prince, Hugh C. "North-West London, 1814-1863," in J.T.Cappock and Hugh Prince, eds. Greater London (1964).
Reeder, David. "A Theatre of Suburbs: Some Patterns of Development in West London, 1801-1911," in H.J.Dyos, ed. The Study of Urban History (1968), 252-71.
Thompson, F.M.L. Hampstead: Building a Borough, 1650-1970 (1978).
Marshall, J.D. "Colonization as a Factor in the Planting of Towns in North-West England," in H.J.Dyos, ed., The Study of Urban History (1968), 215-30.
Noble, M. "Growth and Development in a Regional Urban System: the Country Towns of Eastern Yorkshire, 1700-1850," Urban History Yearbook (1987), 1-21.
Adams, Ian H. The Making of Urban Scotland (1978).
Best, Geoffrey. "The Scottish Victorian City," Victorian Studies 9 (1968), 329-
58.
Morris, Robert J. "Urbanization and Scotland," in W. Hamish Fraser and Robert J. Morris, eds., People and Society in Scotland, vol. II 1830-1914 (1990), 73-102.
Smout, T.C. "Recent Writing on Scottish Urban History since 1707, " Journal of Urban History, 19 (Nov., 1992), 84-90.
Gordon, George ed., Perspectives of the Scottish City (1985).
-------- and Brian Hicks eds. Scottish Urban History (1983).
Daiches, David. Glasgow (1977).
--------. Edinburgh (1978).
Devine, Thomas and Gordon Jackson, eds. Glasgow. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1830 (1995).
Gibb, Andrew. Glasgow, the Making of a City (1983).
Hood, John et al. The History of Clydebank (1988).
Lindsay, Maurice. Victorian and Edwardian Glasgow From Old Photographs (1987).
Pacione, Michael. Glasgow: The Socio-Spatial Development of the City (1995).
architecture and building
Edwards, Brian. "Urban Reform in Glasgow, 1850-1910, and the Views of Local Architects," Planning History, 13 (1, 1991), 12-19.
Gomme, Andor and David Walker. Architecture of Glasgow (1968).
Gifford, John et al. The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh (1984).
Kersting, Anthony and Maurice Lindsay. The Buildings of Edinburgh (1981).
Macdonald, Angus and Patricia. Above Edinburgh and Soutth-East Scotland (1989). A series of stunning aerial photos that help orient the reader.
Whitehand, J.W.R. "The Study of Variations in the Building Fabric of Town
Centres: Procedural Problems and Preliminary Fundings in Southern Scotland," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers n. s. 4 (1979).
culture and society
Prior, Nick. "Edinburgh, Romanticism and the National Gallery of Scotland," Urban History, 22 (Aug., 1995), 205-15.
housing
Butt, J. "Working Class Housing in the Scottish Cities, 1900-1950," in G.Gordon and B.Dicks, eds., Scottish Urban History (1983), 233-268.
---------. "Working Class Housing in Glasgow, 1900-1939," in I. Macdougall, ed. Essays in Scottish Labour History (1978).
Christie, Louise. "Gender, Design and Ideology in Council Housing: Urban Scotland, 1917-1944," Planning History, 15 (3,1993), 6-13.
Glendinning, Miles. " Public Building': Sam Bunton and Scotland's Modern Housing Revolution," Planning History, 14 (3, 1992), 13-22.
Kellett, J.R. "Property Speculators and the Building of Glasgow," Scottish Journal of Political Economy 8 (1961), 211-32.
McCrone, David and Brian Elliott. Property and Power in a City: The Sociological Significance of Landlordism (1989). A study of Edinburgh.
Robb, J.G. "Suburb and Slum in Gorbals: Social and Residential Change, 1800-1900," in Gordon and Dick, Scottish Urban History, 130-167.
Rodger, Richard. "The Growth and Transformation of Scottish Towns: The Role of the Building Cycle," in Ingrid Hammerstrom and Thomas Hall, eds., Growth and Transformation of the Modern City (1978), 115-124.
---------. ed., Scottish Housing in the 20th Century (1990).
---------. "Speculative Builders and the Structure of the Scottish Building Industry, 1860-1914," Business History 21 (1979), 226-46.
---------. "The Victorian Building Industry and the Housing of the Scottish Urban Working Class," in M. Doughty, ed., Building the Industrial City (1986).
Worsdall, F. The Tenement, A Way of Life (1979).
industry and class
Cage, R.A. ed. The Working Class in Glasgow, 1750-1914 (1987).
Checkland, S.G. The Upas Tree: Glasgow, 1875- 1975 (1981).
Rodger, Richard. "Employment, Wages and Poverty in Scottish Cities, 1814-1914," in G. Gordon,. ed. Perspectives of the Scottish City (1985).
---------. "Concentration and Fragmentation: Capital, Labor, and the Structure of Mid-Victorian Scottish Industry," Journal of Urban History 14 (Feb., 1988), 178-213.
planning and urban design
Allen, C.M. "The Genesis of British Urban Redevelopment with Special Reference to Glasgow," Economic History Review 18, 2nd series (1965), 598-613.
Edwards, Brian. "The Glasgow Improvement Scheme as a Model of Urban Renewal," Planning History, 12 (3, 1990), 7-14.
Gordon, George. "The Morphological Development of Scottish Cities from Georgian to Modern Times," in T.R.Slater, ed., The Built Form of Western Cities (1990), 210-32.
Lockhart, D.G. "Scottish Village Plans; A Preliminary Analysis," Scottish Geographical Magazine 96 (1980), 141-57.
McWilliam, Colin. Scottish Townscape (1975).
Meller, Helen. "Planning Theory and Women's Role in the City," Urban History Yearbook (1990), 85-98. A critique of Patrick Geddes' perceptions of women in the city.
---------. "Cities and Evolution: Patrick Geddes as as International Prophet of Town planning Before 1914," in Anthony Sutcliffe, ed. The Rise of Modern Urban Planning, 1800-1914 (1980), 199-224.
Reed, Peter. Glasgow: The Forming of the City (1993).
Smith, P.J. "Planning as Environmental Improvement: Slum Clearance in Victorian Edinburgh," in Sutcliffe, ed., Rise of Modern Urban Planning, 99-134.
Smout, T.C. "The Landowner and the Planned Village in Scotland, 1730-1830," in N.T. Phillipson and R. Mitchison, eds., Scotland in the Age of Improvement (1970).
Wannop, Urlan. "The New Towns of Strathclyde," in John Butt and George Gordon, ed.s., Strathclyde, Changing Horizons (1985), 79-101.
-----. "The Regional Imperative: Strathclyde and Regional Planning in the West of Scotland," Planning History, 18 (1, 1996), 5-13.
Woolmer, H. "Grantown-on-Spey: An Eighteenth Century New Town," Town Planning Review, 41 (1970), 237-49.
urban services
Hume, J.R. "Transport and Towns in Victorian Scotland," in G.Gordon and B.Dicks, eds., Scottish Urban History (1983), 197-232.
Gordon, George. "Edinburgh: Capital and Regional City," in Gordon, ed. Regional Cities in the U.K., 1890 - 1980 (1986), 149-70.
Wannop, Urlan. "Glasgow\Clydeside: a Century of Metropolitan Evolution," in Gordon, ed., Regional Cities, 83-98.
d. Ireland and Northern Ireland
Daly, Mary. "Irish Urban History: A Survey, " Urban History Yearbook, 1986, 61-72.
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