GGR361H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: High Modernism, Industrial Revolution, Waterfront Streetcar
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Periodization of canadian city building and planning: early mercantile (colonial/imperial) period late 1500"s to mid 1700"s, late mercantile (colonial) period mid 1700"s to mid 1800"s, early industrial period mid 1800s through 1930s. Progressive era, urban reform movements (18902, 1900-1st ww) Great depression (1930s: late industrial period high modernism 1940s + Those outside the walls felt excluded from city and attacked walls to try to gain entrance. Within the city, the streets were narrow and buildings were placed and built in haphazard fashion. Quebec city fit that pattern as well. It has a wall built around it similar to carcassonne. Didn"t want to live outside the wall. Rich and poor lived very close together and segregation was those in quebec city and those outside. William penn"s father was a creditor and there was a financial crisis in the uk. William penn got hold of the land (philadelphia)
