HIST 3470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Berwick Street, London, Market (Place), Lifeworld

• School: York University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 3470
• Professor: David Cousins

Document Summary

Hist 3470: 20th century london lecture 3. Walkowitz (cid:894)author of (cid:862)city of dreadful delight(cid:863)(cid:895) Understanding pull of modernity in the post wwi era. Moving away from the victorian ways of life and geographies of the city. A good (cid:449)ay of a(cid:272)(cid:272)essi(cid:374)g the (cid:862)(cid:374)e(cid:449)(cid:374)ess(cid:863) of (cid:1006)(cid:1004)th century london. City becomes a city of consumers; not just workers. Becomes diversified in that sense; rather than a victorian geography of the city which. It is where you go to buy stuff was defined by politics/empire, now you have a geography of a city based on the type of consumption that occurs. Soho becomes the center of the sex trade. There is a specified commercialization specifying certain areas of the city. The way in which the secondary affects of this have cultural meaning class/identity experiences, etc. The (cid:373)edia atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) ope(cid:374)s up a(cid:374) a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess poi(cid:374)t to a se(cid:374)se of (cid:862)(cid:374)e(cid:449)(cid:374)ess(cid:863)