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Northern English industrial towns: rivals or partners?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2004

S.A. CAUNCE
Affiliation:
Department of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE

Abstract

By 1974, northern England had become one of Europe's most urbanized areas, though it had very few towns in 1500. However, the dense population of the industrial regions lived in towns which were unusually crowded together and which had not developed conventional hierarchical structures. No dominant northern metropolis ever emerged, and this unusual urban system displayed intense rivalry at all levels. Was this coincidental, or can it help explain the region's nineteenth-century dynamism?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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