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The Poverty of Planning: Landed Property, Class, and Urban Politics in Nineteenth-Century England - Hardcover

Benno Engels

 
9781498585446: The Poverty of Planning: Landed Property, Class, and Urban Politics in Nineteenth-Century England

Synopsis

Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Benno Engels examines the absence of urban planning in nineteenth-century England. In his analysis of urbanization in England, Engels considers the influences of 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.

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About the Author

Benno Engels is senior lecturer in urban and regional planning at RMIT University.

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