The Baroque City: Court, Parade & Capital –––––––––– The Industrial City The Culture of Cities Monday, March 22/2006 SOSC 2730
Urban Studies YorkU contact:Lisa Drummond Program Coordinator S767 Ross Building x prog. office:S751 Ross x77796
Final Examination 2-5 PM, Monday, April 24 Curtis Lecture Hall D format: Part A (Quiz 5) Part B answer 2 essay questions out of 5 (cumulative)
Schedule of Reading week of March 13 – –The Structure of Baroque Power (12) – –Court, Parade & Capital (13) week of March 20 – –Commercial Expansion & Urban Dissolution (14) – –Paleotechnic Paradise: Coketown (15) week of March 27 – –Suburbia –– and Beyond (16) – –The Myth of Megalopolis (17) week of April 3 – –Retrospect & Prospect (18)
Selected Civilizations
The Industrial City Manchester, UK population: 84,000 (1800)
12 Largest Urban Places in Europe, London350,000948,000 Paris400, ,000 Naples300, ,000 Vienna 70, ,000 Amsterdam120, ,000 Dublin –200,000 Lisbon150, ,000 Berlin –172,000 Madrid100, ,000 Rome110, ,000 Palermo100, ,000 Venice140, ,000
1713
Industrial Revolution coalcoal ––> steam powered machinery
mine pumpsmine pumps factoriesfactories railwaysrailways steam shipssteam ships
1776
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1776
Change separation of work & homeseparation of work & home separation of rural & urbanseparation of rural & urban new social elitenew social elite –manufacturers, bankers, entrepreneurs urban morphologyurban morphology –specialized production zones
1766 Liverpool
1776
1776
1801
1840s
1851
1851
1851
1851
1851
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1851
Change social mobiltiysocial mobiltiy suburbanizationsuburbanization economic recessionseconomic recessions grinding povertygrinding poverty municipal governmentmunicipal government