This insightful, evocative, and sumptuous volume brings Charles Booth's landmark survey of late nineteenth-century London to a new audience.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

For decades the cities of the developed world were seen as problem-beset relics from times of low mobility and slow communications. But now, their potential to

Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly de