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- Title
Visualization, decentralization and metropolitan improvement: ‘light-and-air’ and London County Council photographs, 1899–1908.
- Authors
ROONEY, DAVID
- Abstract
In the 1890s, the London County Council began a project to photograph old buildings in the capital. The common interpretation is that this was preservationist activity to record architectural treasures being ‘lost’. However, after 1899, many images appear not to fit neatly into a story of selective preservation. By examining metropolitan improvement schemes and the politics of housing, this article examines alternative contexts in which the images were made. It suggests the photographs acted in political dialogues about geographies of light and air, time and space, and the right place of working Londoners, as well as more mundane concerns over spending.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; LONDON (England); LONDON County Council; PHOTOGRAPHY of cities &; towns; HISTORY of capital cities; PHOTOGRAPHS -- History; CITIES &; towns; URBAN planning; HOUSING; SYMBOLISM; URBANIZATION; WORKING class; BRITISH politics &; government; HISTORY of London, England; HISTORY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Urban History, 2013, Vol 40, Issue 3, p462
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926813000382