GEOG 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Raymond Unwin, Slippery Slope, Intellectual Disability
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This chapter considers how plans and planning have affected the cities of europe over the past one-hundred years or so. Down until the late nineteenth century planning was usually a byword for the imposition of an aesthetic order on a city, typically in its monumental core. When and why did this shift to a focus on manipulating an entire city"s layout to solve a list of social. Late 19th century: unrest about the form industrial cities had taken. Focus on efficiency (the way people were housed, instead of aesthetically pleasing housing) Rural nostalgia: people saw urban cities as socially disastrous. Urbanism: charles dickens" books about alienating quality of urban life in. Hard times was set in north england: hard grind of everyday life in industrial cities (for children in particular) Captured the sense of disappointment people had with industrial city life (long hours, little pay) People wanted to change their physical environment of cities: social engineering.
