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SUMMARY:Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution - Da
 n Bogart (University of California\, Irvine)
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DESCRIPTION:During the first industrial revolution the English economy und
 erwent a spatial transformation to go along with its structural transforma
 tion in employment. It became highly urbanized and\, apart from London\, i
 ts urban growth shifted to the northwest. This paper examines the role of 
 transport and access to markets in causing this spatial transformation. Tr
 ansport changed greatly with infrastructure improvements and technological
  and organizational innovations. We focus on those occurring before the er
 a of railways and steam ships\, when wagons\, canals\, and sail ships were
  dominant. We construct a measure of market access for 458 towns in 1680 a
 nd 1830 using a new multi-modal transport model and then estimate the effe
 cts of lower trade costs through changes in market access.  Our regression
  model controls for various town characteristics\, including coal endowmen
 ts. The results show that changes in market access had a large positive ef
 fect on changes in urban population. The results contribute to a new under
 standing of the industrial revolution and spatial economic growth more gen
 erally.
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