Housing and the Spatial Structure of the City
Residential mobility and the housing market in an English city since the Industrial Revolution

This book is an investigation of the manner in which the provision and operation of the housing market in Britain has influenced the spatial evolution of urban areas.

R. M. Pritchard (Author)

9780521105620, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2009

248 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.37 kg

This book is an investigation of the manner in which the provision and operation of the housing market in Britain has influenced the spatial evolution of urban areas. In particular, the pattern of residential mobility and intra-urban migration is used to demonstrate the way in which changes in the housing market have produced changes in the social geography of the city. One English city, Leicester, is used as a case-study to show how such processes have operated since the Industrial Revolution.

1. Introduction
2. Housing and the spatial structure of the city
3. Housing and migration in Leicester in 1870
4. Housing and mobility in Leicester, 1870–1940
5. Housing and mobility in Post-war Leicester
6. Conclusions.

Subject Areas: The environment [RN]