GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Modern Architecture, Utopia, Eurocentrism
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Parks were an urban technology for playing fields that children use to stay healthy. It also helped cleanse oxygen and provided greenery. Social housing, unemployment insurance, & health care were municipal affairs before becoming national one. It helped to create healthier workers, who could work, and boost the economy. Europe and north america caught up to britain"s development. Cities were taking a larger population from rural areas, but while the city advanced and became wealthier, its rural immigrants were still unchanged, uneducated, dirty, and poor. Europe was still more advanced than the rest of the world due to its new technologies. Japan, thailand, ottoman empire (turkey), few places in africa, were not conquered by europe. Places that were conquered had their governments, economy, & religion replaced with a new one. The euro-centric idea that the middle east, asia, & africa societies were static & Orientalism: undeveloped, while europe was developed, rational, & superior.
