GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cholera
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4 main changes: technology and productive capacity, new energy sources, increased wealth, urbanization rural to urban migration, much larger city populations, increasing role of capitalism in structuring economic and social affairs. Expansion of global markets and competition- production, raw materials. Expansion of global markets and competition, integration of rest of world into europe-dominant economic system resources, markets, colonies, gold. Many solutions proposed: paternalism, charity, syndicalism, municipal reform, socialism, communism, anarchism, . Municipal infrastructure- definition: a major realization of the late 19th and early 20th century was that large cities needed significant investments in physical infrastructure water, streets, sewers, schools, mire stations, and that private investment was an insufficient solution. Similarities between 19th c & 21st c debates between advocates of low-tax, low services and advocates of greater public investment. Public infrastructure and housing: urban crisis led to realization that for the public good, it was.
