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The Baroque City: Court, Parade & Capital –––––––––– The Industrial City. The Culture of Cities Monday, March 22/2006. SOSC 2730. Urban Studies Program @ YorkU. http://www.arts.yorku.ca/sosc/urbanst/index.html contact: Lisa Drummond Program Coordinator S767 Ross Building
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The Baroque City:Court, Parade & Capital––––––––––The Industrial City The Culture of Cities Monday, March 22/2006 SOSC 2730
Urban Studies Program @ YorkU http://www.arts.yorku.ca/sosc/urbanst/index.html contact: Lisa Drummond Program Coordinator S767 Ross Building 416-736-2100 x 77792 prog. office: S751 Ross drummond@yorku.ca416-736-2100 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)
The Industrial City Manchester, UK population: 84,000 (1800)
12 Largest Urban Places in Europe, 1800 1650 1800 London 350,000 948,000 Paris 400,000 550,000 Naples 300,000 430,000 Vienna 70,000 247,000 Amsterdam 120,000 217,000 Dublin – 200,000 Lisbon 150,000 195,000 Berlin – 172,000 Madrid 100,000 168,000 Rome 110,000 153,000 Palermo 100,000 140,000 Venice 140,000 138,000
Industrial Revolution • coal ––> steam powered machinery
mine pumps • factories • railways • steam ships
Change • separation of work & home • separation of rural & urban • new social elite • manufacturers, bankers, entrepreneurs • urban morphology • specialized production zones
1766 Liverpool
Change • social mobiltiy • suburbanization • economic recessions • grinding poverty • municipal government