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Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the groundwork began to be laid for a rational municipal government.
Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council. His account, based on extensive archival research, is balanced, judicious, lucid, often witty and always urbane.
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Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council.
About the Author
David Owen is the author of The Walls Around Us, My Usual Game, and The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and for six years was a regular columnist for Home. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and their two children.
Roy MacLeod is Professor of History at the University of Sydney.
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- PublisherBelknap Press
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0674358856
- ISBN 13 9780674358850
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages484
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