{"product_id":"the-poverty-of-planning-9781498585446","title":"The Poverty of Planning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Forestalling of Urban Planning Reforms in Nineteenth Century England\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Historiography, Neo-Marxist Theory and Investigating Nineteenth Century England\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Industrialization and Early Nineteenth Century English Towns: The Case for Public Policy Intervention\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Landed Property, English Land Law and the Nineteenth Century Urban Property Market\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Local Government Politics and Urban Improvement Prior to 1835\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Middle Class Political Activism at the Local State Level after the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Central State, Parliamentary Politics and the Protection of Property\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Working Class Activism and the Agitation for Town Improvements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Economic and Political Restructuring of England: Phase 1 – 1873 to 1895.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: The Edwardian Political Turn and the Emergence of Urban Planning Reform: Phase 2 – 1896 to 1914. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: The Poverty of Urban Planning in Nineteenth Century England: Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040846840151,"sku":"9781498585446","price":112.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498585446.jpg?v=1750948041","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-poverty-of-planning-9781498585446","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}