Thursday, 21 March 2019

The making of the modern metropolis: evidence from London

a paper by Stephan Heblich, Stephen J. Redding and Daniel M. Sturm published in CentrePiece Volume 24 Issue 1 (Spring 2019)
Paper No CEPCP548:

Over the last two centuries, transport innovations have drastically changed urban landscapes. Stephan Heblich, Stephen Redding and Daniel Sturm examine how the introduction of steam railways shaped the emerging metropolitan area of London.

Much of the aggregate growth of Greater London can be explained by the new transport technology of the railway

Full text (PDF 4pp) with some amazing illustrations and access to a much longer paper by these authors.


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