“Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control

Bridge, Gary (Herausgeber:in) / Watson, Sophie (Herausgeber:in) / Ross, Andrew (Autor:in)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 169-178

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

25.02.2011

10 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch15

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

laissez‐faire climate of Victorian capitalism ‐ state intervention, brunt of population control , recorded urban history, cities' capacities ‐ sign of prosperity, technical and administrative achievement , “shrinking cities” in post‐industrial Europe and North America ‐ refueling racially inflected genre of population anxiety , Marxist analysis of urban space ‐ environmentalist awareness of planetary limits to growth , “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding” ‐ history and politics of urban population control , extracting rent, attracting gentry ‐ holdings, new source of unearned increment , population control, a primary principle ‐ of city, regional and state planning , John Winthrop's 1630 exhortation to Massachusetts Bay Colony pilgrims ‐ building a “city upon a hill” model for Christian urbanism in the US , Victorian industrial city, intolerable conditions ‐ programs of conscience and uplift , anti‐urban sentiment, reflex of elites seeking bucolic refuge ‐ from sweaty mass