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How the West End has won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London (1993)
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Atkins, P. (1993). How the West End has won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London. Journal of Historical Geography, 19(3), 265-277. https://doi.org/10.1006/jhge.1993.1017

The West End of London was a long-lived élite residential district. One feature which helped to establish its privileged character was the protection of certain key boundaries with barriers impermeable to non-residential traffic. Public dislike of re... Read More about How the West End has won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London.