LD ARCH 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Joseph Paxton, Jacob Riis, James Pennethorne
21 May 2016
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Arose with the industrial age; response to this and and to overcrowded, unsanitary cities = democratic gardens (public parks) Mass in ux of people to cities, where buildings and factories were jobs: rapid change: led to more interest in workers" health, working conditions: crowded, unhealthy, and unsanitary, so reformers (upper- middle class) arose to drive legislation >clean water act. Savannah, georgia = early american utopian community: wanted everybody to share things as equally as possible. Prince hermann von packler-muskau: wanted to open garden/estate for everyone, so he was criticized and told that poor would rob him. Geroge-eugene hausmann was hired to change paris ; urban renewal.
