New Charles Booth's Poverty Map Of London

The London School of Economics has released a novel online interactive map of Charles Booth's Poverty Map of London.

Charles Booth was an English linguistic communication philanthropist who is close famous for his interrogation into working aeroplane life inward London at the terminate of the 19th Century. In the 1800's a large proportion of London's population lived inward poverty. Charles Booth didn't believe the claims made past times social reformers that a quarter of Londoners lived inward abject poverty.

Booth's answer was to behaviour out a huge written report into the lives too working atmospheric condition of Londoners. He published the results of his interrogation inward 'Life too Labour of the People inward London'. The publication included detailed 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty' inward which the levels of poverty too wealth inward London were mapped out street past times street.

Through his thorough investigation into living too working atmospheric condition inward London Booth discovered that a 3rd of Londoners genuinely lived inward poverty.

The LSE's imaginatively entitled PhoneBooth application is an interactive version of Booth's poverty map of London. The map is overlaid on pinnacle of the modern OpenStreetMap of London. It includes a slide command too then that you lot tin hand notice conform the opacity of Booth's map too sentiment the modern street map of London beneath Booth's 19th Century poverty map.

PhoneBooth too includes a map of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010. This enables you lot to compare Booth's 19th Century poverty map alongside the electrical flow social atmospheric condition of Londoners on a street past times street basis.

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