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 virtually famous for his enquiry into working cast life inwards London at the halt of the 19th Century. In the 1800's a large proportion of London's population lived inwards poverty. Charles Booth didn't believe the claims made past times social reformers that a quarter of Londoners lived inwards abject poverty.

Booth's reply was to comport out a huge report into the lives as well as working weather condition of Londoners. He published the results of his enquiry inwards 'Life as well as Labour of the People inwards London'. The publication included detailed 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty' inwards which the levels of poverty as well as wealth inwards London were mapped out street past times street.

Through his thorough investigation into living as well as working weather condition inwards London Booth discovered that a 3rd of Londoners genuinely lived inwards poverty.

The LSE's imaginatively entitled PhoneBooth application is an interactive version of Booth's poverty map of London. The map is overlaid on tiptop of the modern OpenStreetMap of London. It includes a slide command as well as hence that you lot tin adapt the opacity of Booth's map as well as sentiment the modern street map of London beneath Booth's 19th Century poverty map.

PhoneBooth every bit good 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 weather condition of Londoners on a street past times street basis.