TY - BOOK ID - 2386889 TI - Coping with city growth during the British Industrial Revolution PY - 1990 SN - 0521364809 0521893887 0511664893 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cities and towns KW - Great Britain KW - Growth KW - History KW - Economic conditions KW - 1760-1860 KW - Cities and towns - Great Britain - Growth - History - 19th century. KW - Great Britain - Economic conditions - 1760-1860. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Industrial revolution KW - Global cities KW - Municipalities KW - Towns KW - Urban areas KW - Urban systems KW - Human settlements KW - Sociology, Urban UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2386889 AB - Coping with City Growth assesses Britain's handling of city growth during the First Industrial Revolution by combining the tools used by Third World analysts with the archival attention and eclectic style of the economic historian. What emerges is an exciting and provocative accounts that have long occupied problem development economists: urban unemployment, underemployment, and the alleged failure of city labour markets to absorb the flood of rural emigrants; the persistent influx of newcomers, which makes it difficult for municipal planners to improve the quality of social overhead; the crowding of migrants into densely packed urban slums with few, if any, social services; and rising density and city size which augment pollution while lowering the quality of the urban environment. ER -