Accommodating the outcast: Common lodging houses and the limits of urban governance in Victorian and Edwardian London

Urban History

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 414-436

  Crook, Tom ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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METROPOLITAN AREA; MODERNITY; URBAN HISTORY; URBAN PLANNING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 56749169452     PISSN: 09639268     EISSN: 14698706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963926808005713     Document Type: Article

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