Becoming Metropolitan: Urban Transformation of 19th Century Newcastle (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City)

Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastle’s becoming of a metropolitan city-region in the 19th century, this book explores a new understanding of how successful cities attain a metropolitan status through disruptions of incessant economic advances being ameliorated by myriad social organizations to create a new vibrant urban environment. The book defines the specific process of ‘becoming metropolitan’ by bringing together economic and social urban studies to explain an interactive development that when successful, creates a metropolitan city region.In addition, a real example of this is meticulously described through a detailed case study that traces the process across decades to a metropolitan outcome.In doing so, it combines theoretical and empirical understandings within a single text and providing accessible information to a unique and large data set. Becoming Metropolitan will appeal to graduates and researchers of Geography, Sociology, Planning and History specializing in citie