GGR339H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Garden City Movement, Neighborhood Watch, Half-Life
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Ggr339 (lecture three) geographies of encounter - tuesday, january 20, 2015. The shock city and the production of capitalist space. 19th century industrial city: urban planner howard and le corbusier. Jane jacobs: problems with jacobs in the film. The context howard and le corbusier is in. Shock cities are cities that are growing faster than they can accommodate, especially during the industrial revolution. This is drastically different from people coming from the country. It is too varied for people to comprehend. Fishman talks about a city explosion, going from chicago with a few people in 1840 to. 1. 7 million people in less than 60 years. This is the first space that is capitalist. Harvey talks about the city as a movement of capital. People are living in tenement and slums, creating hazardous conditions including the lack of sewage. Frank demonstrates how terrible it is (supplementary readings).
