Daunton M. The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Volume 3: 1840-1950
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Market place, Marlborough, Wiltshire: a small market town, photographed
in the early s.
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Belvoir Road, Coalville, Leicestershire c. : a small Midland industrial town, showing the main shopping street.
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The clock tower and campanile dominates Town Square, at the centre of
Stevenage, which was designated as the first new town in by Lewis
Silkin, the Minister of Town and Country Planning, whose portrait is seen on
the tower. The sculpture, ‘Joy-ride’ by Franta Belsky, was commissioned by the
Stevenage Development Corporation to symbolise the new town and the
arrival of a new generation.
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Donaldson’s Hospital, Edinburgh: a Renaissance palace celebrating merchant wealth and philanthropy.
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Woodhouse Mechanics Institute and Temperance Hall, Leeds: a simple, chapel-like building dedicated to self-
improvement. Samuel Smiles delivered his lectures on ‘self-help’ to the organisation in the s.
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Nineteenth-century court housing in central Liverpool, photographed in , showing the congestion
and lack of through ventilation.
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By-law housing in Cardiff, built in the late nineteenth century, for
unskilled workers (below) and the lower middle class (above), shows the more
open layout.
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Typical Edinburgh tenements, built in the s: a dense, high-rise form of
residence which was unusual in England.
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Peabody Square, James Street, Westminster: a block of flats built by the Peabody Trust on land cleared of
slums. The architectural form arose from the high price of land, and was not popular. From Illustrated London
News, March .
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Suburban council housing, built under the act, Curtis Road,
Liverpool, shows the adoption of low-density suburban forms.
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