A Tale of Two Victorian Cities in the 21 st Century Geoffrey Meen, Julia Meen and Christian Nygaard The University of Reading, UK International Centre for Housing and Urban Economics, Department of Economics, The University of Reading Business School, PO Box 219, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AW, England. Telephone: 0118 378 6029 Fax: 0118 378 6533 Email: g.p.meen@reading.ac.uk nygaard.christian@ems.rmit.edu.au ICHUE Discussion Paper No. 7