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Emerging modernity in an urban setting: nineteenth-century Bristol revealed in property surveys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Spencer Jordan ,
Peter Wardley  and
Matthew Woollard
Spencer Jordan
Affiliation:
Faculty of Humanities, University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 2JP
Peter Wardley
Affiliation:
Faculty of Humanities, University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 2JP
Matthew Woollard
Affiliation:
Dept of History, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
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Abstract

This article analyses the urban structure of nineteenth-century Bristol through the analysis of property surveys. Examination of a machine-readable version of a property survey for 1837 demonstrates that Bristol exhibited modern patterns of urban development as the city's medieval form was supplanted by processes associated with the segregation of class and economic activity, a functional change from a mercantile centre to one broadly based on manufacturing and services. The longitudinal implications of this change are examined using subsequent surveys for 1851 and 1871.

Type
Research Article
Information
Urban History , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , August 1999 , pp. 191 - 210
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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