{"id":1789485,"date":"2020-10-07T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789485"},"modified":"2020-10-07T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T13:06:07","slug":"charles-booths-london-poverty-maps-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/charles-booths-london-poverty-maps-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Booth&#8217;s London Poverty Maps Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1789487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1789487\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/booth.lse.ac.uk\/map\/14\/-0.1174\/51.5064\/100\/0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1789487\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/charles-booths-london-poverty-maps-online\/charles-booth-interactive\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1520,854\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"charles-booth-interactive\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Screenshot&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive-1024x575.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1789487 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive-940x528.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive-680x383.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive-712x400.jpg 712w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/charles-booth-interactive.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1789487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last year I told you about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/0500022291\/maproom-20\"><em>Charles Booth\u2019s London Poverty Maps<\/em><\/a>, 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. Somehow I missed the fact that there has been <a href=\"https:\/\/booth.lse.ac.uk\/map\/14\/-0.1174\/51.5064\/100\/0\">an online, interactive version of said maps<\/a> for several years now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/09\/hand-colored-maps-of-wealth-poverty-in-victorian-london.html\">[<em>Open Culture<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/charles-booths-london-poverty-maps\/\">Charles Booth\u2019s London Poverty Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Somehow I&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/charles-booths-london-poverty-maps-online\/\">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":[54,166,1402],"class_list":["post-1789485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-human-geography","tag-cities","tag-london","tag-poverty","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788021,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/charles-booths-london-poverty-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789485,"position":0},"title":"Charles Booth&#8217;s London Poverty Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 November 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"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 class\u201d as \u201cvicious, semi-criminal,\u201d for example). The final maps, hand-coloured, are famous in map terms:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/charles-booth-london-poverty-maps-oblique-198x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1318,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/the-new-york-tube-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789485,"position":1},"title":"The New York Tube Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Cameron Booth's latest project is a New York subway map in the form of the London Tube Map:\u00a0\"A little while ago, someone\u00a0asked me\u00a0on my\u00a0Transit Maps\u00a0blog whether I had ever seen a map of the New York subway system in the style of the London Underground diagram. Rather surprisingly, I hadn\u2019t\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Transit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Transit","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/transit\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"New York Tube_v2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NewYorkTube_800px.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NewYorkTube_800px.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NewYorkTube_800px.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NewYorkTube_800px.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2921,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/09\/cameron-booths-amtrak-subway-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789485,"position":2},"title":"Cameron Booth&#8217;s Amtrak Subway Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 September 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Cameron Booth has released an apparently final version of his subway-style Amtrak network map, which he's been working on for the past few years. In this version\u00a0he's reworked it to improve spacing and lettering;\u00a0routes do not overlap one another, which also improves clarity. It doesn't reduce well to a single\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Transit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Transit","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/transit\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Amtrak Subway Map, 2016","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/amtrak-subway-1024x664.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/amtrak-subway-1024x664.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/amtrak-subway-1024x664.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/amtrak-subway-1024x664.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4294,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/04\/mapping-amtrak-cuts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789485,"position":3},"title":"Mapping Amtrak Cuts","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 April 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"President Trump's proposed budget would end funding for Amtrak's long-distance passenger routes, leaving only the Northeast Corridor and state-funded lines. 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 &quot;Transit&quot;","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":1788091,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/2019-holiday-gift-guide\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789485,"position":4},"title":"2019 Holiday Gift Guide","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 November 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year at about this time I post a gift guide that lists some of the noteworthy books about maps that have been published this year. If you have a map-obsessed person in your life and would like to give them something map-related\u2014or you are a map-obsessed person and would\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gift Guides&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gift Guides","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gift-guides\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/charles-booth-london-poverty-maps-oblique-99x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/charles-booth-london-poverty-maps-oblique-99x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/charles-booth-london-poverty-maps-oblique-99x150.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/charles-booth-london-poverty-maps-oblique-99x150.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1833060,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/07\/historical-maps-of-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789485,"position":5},"title":"Historical Maps of London","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 July 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"Tudor London: The City and Southwark in 1520. 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Londonist does a good job introducing us to two maps of old London published by the Historic Towns Trust a few years ago\u2014a map of medieval London (1270-1300) published in 2019, and a map of Tudor London (1520) published\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;History&quot;","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tudor-london.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tudor-london.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tudor-london.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tudor-london.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tudor-london.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tudor-london.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789489,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789485\/revisions\/1789489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}