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URBAN PROBLEMS - Pamphlet Towns grew rapidly from the beginning of the eighteenth century This created problems of: * Suburban growth * Appalling Slums * Pollution * Disease One of the most difficult problems was finding space for all the people who needed to live in the towns * No cheap public transport until mid-19th C. * Most had to be able to walk to work * In new industrial towns thousands of back to back houses were built close to coal mine or factory * Larger houses w/gardens built in suburbs for middle class - cheaper * They travelled to work by horse drawn buses or carriages * Too expensive for working class Cheap public transport began: * 1860's - horse drawn trams * 1862 - Opening of first London underground BY 1750 London had about 750,000 people living in it whilst most other towns had no more than 50,000 - huge problems for London * Most lived in squalid slums * Death rate high - 3/4...

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