Emerging modernity in an urban setting: nineteenth-century Bristol revealed in property surveys

This article analyses the urban structure of nineteenth-century Bristol through the analysis of property surveys. Examination of a machine-readable version of a property survey for 1837 demonstrates that Bristol exhibited modern patterns of urban development as the city's medieval form was supp...

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Published in:Urban history 1999-08, Vol.26 (2), p.191-210
Main Authors: Jordan, Spencer, Wardley, Peter, Woollard, Matthew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities
City politics
Corporations
Economic Change
Economic Development
Economic Structure
Economic surveys
England
Merchants
Modernization
Nineteenth Century
Parishes
Property
Property ownership
Surveys
Towns
Urban Areas
Urban Development
Urban history
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Summary:This article analyses the urban structure of nineteenth-century Bristol through the analysis of property surveys. Examination of a machine-readable version of a property survey for 1837 demonstrates that Bristol exhibited modern patterns of urban development as the city's medieval form was supplanted by processes associated with the segregation of class and economic activity, a functional change from a mercantile centre to one broadly based on manufacturing and services. The longitudinal implications of this change are examined using subsequent surveys for 1851 and 1871.
ISSN:0963-9268
1469-8706
DOI:10.1017/S096392689900022X