1593 – Elizabethan Act against overcrowding of London houses
Elizabeth’s 1580 Royal Proclamation against building assumed national scope with an Act of Parliament in 1588, effectively sanctioning a discourse of building founded on the idea that banning any new, subdivided, or multi-occupant buildings would curb London’s skyrocketing population. A series of Elizabethan anti-building proc lamations was based on the premise that the new and…