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1 Cities in Hindsight Roey Sweet Centre for Urban History www.le.ac.uk

2 Cities in hindsight What is a city? Cities perceived Challenges and the response: –Migration –Environment –Decline

3 Largest cities in Europe in 1700 and 1900 CityPopulation (1000s) CityPopulation Constantinople700London6,480 London550Paris3,330 Paris530Berlin2,424 Naples205Vienna1,662 Lisbon188St Petersburg1,439 Amsterdam172Manchester1,225 Rome149Birmingham1,248 Venice144Moscow1,120 Moscow130Glasgow1,072 Milan124Liverpool940

4 Piero della Francesca, The Ideal City (c. 1470)

5 Paul Sandby, The Mackerel Seller and the Stocking Vendor from the Cries of London (1760)

6 William Hogarth, Gin Lane and Beer Street (1751)

7 Gustave Doré Over the city by railway by from London: A Pilgrimage (1872)

8 George Cruikshank Salus Populi Suprema Lex (1832)

9 J MW Turner, Venice (1840)

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