A comparative study in urban history, Victorian Cities examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with

In 1837, in England and Wales, there were only five provincial cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants. By 1891 there were twenty-three. Over the same period Lo

The arrival of the railway was one of the most far reaching events in the history of the Victorian city. The present study, based upon detailed case histories o

This volume explores the complex aesthetic, cultural, and memory politics of urban representation and reconfiguration in neo-Victorian discourse and practice. T

Victorian City is a study of the social and intellectual attitudes of Victorian society to the challenge of urbanization.