Reconciling Social and Physical Space: Wolverhampton 1871

In studying residential patterns, factorial ecologists have tended to concentrate upon social differentiation. Similarly, urban historians have focused upon the differentiation of the residential environment and, in particular, the differentiation of the physical fabric of the city. It is argued here that a full appreciation of urban residential patterns must integrate both of these aspects. To illustrate this, the paper attempts to characterize variations in the residential environment in mid-Victorian Wolverhampton and to show how these help provide an understanding of the spatial patterns revealed by maps of component scores.