HIST 3209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mansard Roof, Ashlar, Aristocracy
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Week 5 lecture 2 built environment cont. Today"s lecture: brick and artistic concrete block; apartment building: shift from ethnic building to period of capitalism, larger corporations and investors pooling their capital to pool houses, also impact of technology becoming more esteablished. Looking at the development in brick explores this shift: on monday, we can"t assume that the buildings that survive in the past represent the houses that existed in the past. Ottawa area building materials: evolution of housing stock (census 1851, 61, 91, 51, had log houses and shantys, 61, log and frame, 91 combines both. Stone houses doubled, but rates still decreased (housed only 4%) Montreal in order to complete his construction contract: kennedy established one of the first brick yards in ottawa north of the mormon church across the experimental farm is a brick house that still exists.
