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Court Housing in Kingston Upon Hull, by C.A. Forster, subtitled 'An example of cyclic processes in the morphological development of nineteenth century bye-law housing'
Book published by University of Hull in their 'Occasional Papers in Geography' series in 1972, 94 pages. Paperback (S8295J)
From the introduction: During recent years knowledge of the social structure of the residential areas of British towns has advanced rapidly with the application of techniques such as principal components analysis to contemporary census data at enumeration district level (Gittus, Robson, etc.). However, our knowledge of the morphological structure of these same areas has advanced slowly, ifat all. Generalised categories of mass housing can be recognised in any large British town: the outlying council estate; the multi-story block characteristic of inner-area redevelopment; semi-detached suburbia; and the nineteenth-century working mens' terrace (Smailes). What is lacking is an appreciation of variations in house-type within these major categories, and an understanding of the evolutionary processes which have given rise to such variations.
In common with most of the industrial towns of the Midlands and North of England, the inner residential areas of Kingston upon Hull are characterised by the presence of large numbers of small working-class houses built before the First World War, of the type usually referred to as bye-law housing. 38,450 of these houses were still occupied in 1965, providing homes for over one third of the population of the County Borough (303,261 in 1961). 46 percent of the houses were laid out as conventional terraces along thoroughfare streets, but 54 percent were in cul-de-sac courts, which consisted of two parallel, facing rows of houses with a wide pathway between them, laid out at right-angles to a thoroughfare street to form a self contained unit of between 12 and 22 houses (Fig. I.). The courts, or 'terraces' in local terminology, are a distinctive feature of the urban landscape and this paper examines, and attempts to explain, variations in their morphology. However, in addition to analysing the terrace features unique to an individual town, it is hoped that the paper might suggest features common to bye-law housing in general, and add to our understanding of the nature of this major component of British urban structure, and of the processes which shaped its morphology.
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