GEOG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Baby Boomers, William Levitt, Lewis Mumford
15 Oct 2018
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City life - urbanism (way of living in cities) Cities and way of life, the greek idea of the agora is the definition itself of the roman forum, the market place, that"s largely the image mumford has in mind. This form of living in cities, that"s different than the countryside, this has a specific way it develops. The model of the indust city 20th century is chicago, the questitial city. Chicago becomes the site of the way we imagine cities in the 20th century. Multi -ethnic , lots of social group, constant streams of traffic, street cars. The moment after the 1870"s at the beginning of the second phrase of the indust revolution. Manchester first phase and chicago is the second phase. Creation of petroleum, skyscraper 1883 (steel frame, department store look) The use of catalogues , important way that people shopped. (up to purchasing houses)
