Editing Westminster (section)

===Victorian divide===
[[File:Booth map of Westminster.jpg|255px|thumb|right|Part of [[Charles Booth (philanthropist)|Charles Booth]]'s [[poverty map]] showing Westminster in 1889. The colours of the streets represent the economic class of the residents: Yellow ("Upper-middle and Upper classes, Wealthy"), red ("Lower middle class – Well-to-do middle class"), pink ("Fairly comfortable good ordinary earnings"), blue ("Intermittent or casual earnings"), and black ("lowest class occasional labourers, street sellers, loafers, criminals and semi-criminals"). Booth coloured Victoria Street, with its new shops and flats, yellow. The model dwellings built by the [[Peabody Trust]] on the side streets off Victoria Street appear as pink and grey, signalling modest respectability, while the black and blue streets represent the remaining slum areas housing the poorest.<ref>{{cite book | last= Richard | first= Dennis | year= 2008 | title= Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space | publisher= Cambridge University Press | pages= 140 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Gq9_uNNkmKUC&q=Old+Pye+Street | isbn= 978-0-521-46841-1}}</ref>]]

[[Charles Booth (philanthropist)|Charles Booth]]'s [[poverty map]] showing Westminster in 1889 recorded the full range of income- and capital-brackets living in adjacent streets within the area; its central western area had become (by 1850) (the) Devil's Acre in the southern flood-channel ravine of the [[River Tyburn]], yet Victoria Street and other small streets and squares had the highest colouring of social class in London: yellow/gold. Westminster has shed the abject poverty with the clearance of this [[slum]] and with drainage improvement, but there is a typical [[Central London]] property distinction within the area which is very acute, epitomised by grandiose 21st-century developments, architectural high-point [[listed building]]s<ref>
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</ref> and nearby [[social housing]] (mostly non-[[council housing]]) buildings of the [[Peabody Trust]] founded by philanthropist [[George Peabody]].