Taking Stock examines failed attempts to improve and reform London’s only livestock market, Smithfield in the early nineteenth century. Addressing both the aesthetics and aims of urbanism(s) in the period, and the stymieing force of the butchers’ professional practice, this dissertation attempts to nuance ‘geographies of design’, through both actor network theory and contemporary philosophy. Killing animals is a skilled job, this study hopes to explore why, and in doing so arrest what reformers tended to (dis)miss.
spike.sweeting@network.rca.ac.uk
