Obstructive Infrastructure

Eric L. Jones
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Eric L. Jones: University of Buckingham

Chapter Chapter 8 in Barriers to Growth, 2020, pp 67-78 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Existing physical structures sometimes obstructed development. The stock of roads and river bridges seemed adequate however until the pressure of late eighteenth-century traffic. Although in some cases conflicting interests slowed the response, 80 per cent of medieval bridges were replaced between 1770 and 1830. Transport investment may have hesitated in the 1770s through competition for capital for enclosures and canals. Urban expansion was sometimes hampered by ancient rights, notably in Nottingham, where burgess intransigence crowded buildings and forced them upwards instead of out into the fields.

Keywords: Medieval river bridges; Late eighteenth-century transport demand; Capital scarcity; Ancient rights; Distorted urban growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44274-3_8

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