ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to review the course of policies and programmes since 1875 and to embody them into some larger logical structure. Clearance schemes need to be disengaged from the rush of events and placed in more general spatial and chronological contexts. Above all, the object will be to examine how the clearance strategy broke down and a rival paradigm came to be established. Attention is first given to the discussion of urban structure and processes in the work of Charles Booth. This was not only the predominant account of its age, but both mirrors and informs the political thought and action discussed in earlier chapters.
