Bird’s eye view of ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ (1886)
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This situation was to change, at least in part, with the emergence of new attitudes adopted by a new generation of municipal reformers, led by the imperious and radical Chamberlain. The streets improvement programs and campaigns for better sanitary conditions were part and parcel of a much larger ‘civic gospel’ or municipal reform movement that sought to re-energise and improve ´ºÓêÖ±²¥’s social, cultural and physical landscape.
Followers of Chamberlain, such as the Quaker Richard Barrow, now argued that they were “determined to vote for every measure that would make ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ ‘a clean healthy and modern town’” (Briggs, 1963). This was the new metropolis shown in the lofty vision of the “Bird’s Eye View Of ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ 1886”.