Victorian cities: how different?

This article highlights the differences of cities in North America and Great Britain during the Victorian period. The advent of industrial revolution has made the study of residential congregation patterns in the 19th-century complex. The notion of modern city is viewed differently by historians. Traditionally modern city is described as having at the center the rich and the poor at the periphery. The advent of mass transportation has reversed the description of modern. The rich abandoned the center and stayed at the periphery and segregation is basically by status and income.