{"id":1788021,"date":"2019-11-01T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T14:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788021"},"modified":"2019-11-01T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T14:10:38","slug":"charles-booths-london-poverty-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/charles-booths-london-poverty-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Charles Booth\u2019s London Poverty Maps<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Thames & Hudson<\/a>, October) is a look back at Booth<\/a>\u2019s idiosyncratic and judgey block-by-block survey of poverty and the social classes of late 19th-century London (his maps described the \u201clowest class\u201d as \u201cvicious, semi-criminal,\u201d for example). The final maps, hand-coloured, are famous in map terms: there was an exhibition back in 2011<\/a>. The book adds preparatory maps, \u201cselected reproductions of pages from the original notebooks, containing anecdotes related by Londoners of every trade, class, creed and nationality together with observations by Booth\u2019s interviewers that reveal much about their social class and moral views.\u201d Plus essays and infographics to put the whole thing in a modern context. Mapping London<\/em> has a review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Related: Map Books of 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Booth\u2019s London Poverty Maps (Thames & Hudson, October) is a look back at Booth\u2019s idiosyncratic and judgey block-by-block survey of poverty and the social classes of late 19th-century London (his maps described the \u201clowest… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,363],"tags":[30,54,166,1402],"class_list":["post-1788021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-human-geography","tag-books","tag-cities","tag-london","tag-poverty","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789485,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/charles-booths-london-poverty-maps-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788021,"position":0},"title":"Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps Online","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Last year I told you about Charles Booth\u2019s London Poverty Maps, a book collecting and analyzing the maps produced by Booth\u2019s block-by-block survey of poverty and the social classes of late 19th-century London. 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Maps of the\u00a0lines that would be closed\u00a0share the problems of Amtrak network maps in general. Take\u00a0USA Today\u2019s map from its 12 April article on the subject: Like electoral maps that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Transit"","block_context":{"text":"Transit","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/transit\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/amtrak-usa-today-234x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1785909,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/maps-of-london-and-beyond\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788021,"position":4},"title":"Maps of London and Beyond","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 July 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Adam Dant's\u00a0Maps of London and Beyond (Batsford, 7 June) is a collection of the artist's \"beautiful, witty and subversive\" maps. 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