Booth poverty maps

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Booth poverty maps are pioneering late-19th-century social surveys of London that visually documented the geographic distribution of wealth and poverty across the city.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical document
social survey
thematic map series
appliesToJurisdiction London NERFINISHED
archiveAt British Library NERFINISHED
London School of Economics NERFINISHED
basedOn empirical fieldwork
statistical analysis of income and occupation
cartographicType choropleth map
street-level map
colorScheme black for lowest class
dark blue for very poor
light blue for poor
pink for fairly comfortable
purple for mixed classes
red for well-to-do
yellow for wealthy
country United Kingdom
creator Charles Booth NERFINISHED
depicts geographic distribution of poverty in London
geographic distribution of wealth in London
middle-class districts
upper-class districts
working-class districts
describedBySource Life and Labour of the People in London NERFINISHED
genre social investigation
urban study
hasDigitalRepresentation online digitised maps
hasInfluenced modern urban sociology
poverty research
social cartography
urban planning
historicalPeriod Victorian era
inception 1886
language English
location London, England
surface form: London
mainSubject poverty
social conditions in London
wealth distribution
partOf Life and Labour of the People in London NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1889
significantFor early use of GIS-like spatial analysis
pioneering visualisation of social inequality
timePeriod late 19th century
uses color-coded classification of social classes
house-to-house surveys
interviews with local clergy
interviews with school board visitors

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Charles Booth knownFor Booth poverty maps