CSCT 1CS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Robert Crumb, Antiseptic, Gentrification
6 Feb 2014
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Spaces and places: robert crumb: a short history of america, urbanized landscape: A landscape that is largely devoid of places worth caring about. Soulless subdivisions, residential communities utterly lacking in communal life; strip shopping centres, big box chain stores, and artificially festive malls set within barren seas of parking, antiseptic office parks, ghost towns after. In 1950 there were 86 cities in the world with a population over one million. Today, there are 400 and by 2015, there will be at least 550. Cities, indeed, have absorbed nearly two-thirds of the global population explosion since 1950 and are currently growing by a million babies and migrants each week. The present urban population (3. 2 billion) is larger than the total population of the world in 1960. The global countryside, meanwhile, has reached its maximum population (3. 2 billion) and will begin to shrink after 2020.
