The Industrial Revolution led to the increasing functional specialization of building investment. Canals and railways moved goods and people; factories and mills housed manufacturing activity; civic buildings supported local administration; and country houses were acquired by wealthy industrialists as well as bankers and merchants. Canals and railways were by far the most expensive of these investments. However, the iconic buildings of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were the town halls, law courts, market exchanges, libraries, and museums which sprang up everywhere, particularly in the industrial heartlands of the Midlands and North. These buildings were an expression of the growing reach of the local state, the civic pride of the new industrial towns and cities, and the possibilities of the new construction technologies of glass and steel. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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