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The Poverty of Planning

Landed Property, Class, and Urban Politics in Nineteenth-Century England
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Using a neo-Marxian, urban political economy perspective, this book examines the absence of urban planning in nineteenth-century England. In its analysis of urbanization in England, the book considers the influences of landed property owners, inheritance laws, local government structures, fiscal crises of the local and central state, shifts in voter sentiments, fluctuating economic conditions, and class-based pressure group activity.
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
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