Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond Since 1750
In: Historical Urban Studies Series
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Historical Urban Studies General Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1 Governance: two centuries of urban growth -- 2 Urban governance: some reflections -- 3 The 'decline' of British urban governance since 1850: a reassessment -- 4 Urban government, finance and public health in Victorian Britain -- 5 The role and influence of Glasgow's municipal managers, 1890s-1930s -- 6 Urban governance in Montreal and Toronto in a period of transition -- 7 A spirit of improvement: improvement commissioners, boards of health and central-local relations in Portsea -- 8 Expediency, authority and duplicity: reforming Sheffield's police, 1832-40 -- 9 Politics, ideology and the governance of health care in Sheffield before the NHS -- 10 French local authorities and the challenge of industrial pollution, c. 1810-1917 -- 11 A paradigm of inaction? The politics and un-politics of smoke abatement legislation in Stockport, 1844-56 -- 12 Industrial conciliation, class co-operation and the urban landscape in mid-Victorian England -- 13 The search for legitimacy: universities, medical licensing bodies and governance in Glasgow and Edinburgh from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries -- 14 Ownership of the place of burial: a study of early nineteenth-century urban conflict in Britain -- 15 Ritual and civic culture in the English industrial city, c. 1835-1914 -- 16 The management of urban public spaces: Shahjahanabad, New Delhi, Greater Delhi, 1857-1997 -- Index