Griffiths, S; Navickas, K; (2020) The Micro-Geography of Political Meeting Places in Manchester and Sheffield c.1780-1850. In: Stobart, J and Linstrom, D and Clemente, A, (eds.) Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750-1900. Routledge: London, UK.

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In examining the locations of meeting sites for a wide range of political and associational activity, this chapter seeks to describe and understand the micro-geographies of the political culture of the Manchester. In 1801, Manchester's population had already grown rapidly to over 70,000; by 1841, it had reached over 242,000, itself an increase of 100,000 over the previous decade. Space syntax is a micro-morphological method of urban description in that its fundamental representation, the ‘axial graph’, differentiates urban areas on the basis of the spatial configuration of its street network. Axial analysis represents the urban street network as a spatial configuration of the least and longest set of straight lines that cover all contiguous open space in an urban area. Three concepts from space syntax theory are important to the interpretation of the analytical phase of the research. They are: accessibility, foreground and background networks, and accessibility is pervasive and relative to definitions of scale.

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