GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Urban Design, Industrial Revolution, Cholera
Document Summary
Associated with the industrial revolution and urban growth that led to disastrous living conditions in n. a and europe. Polluted environments with expansion on industry with little infrastructure (sewage and transit system) They were seen as the past (rural, poverty, low technology, lack of education) country side was the unchanging, poor, uneducated etc. (negative light) This dichotomy gets reinforced during this period (this was the idea of modernity) This ideology of progress/possibility became a hegemonic idea of the time (it was unquestioned) something people do not question but carry with it a number of problematic ideas. One of those were that modernity was bound up with eurocentricism these ideas were associated with europe and it was going to wipe away traditional ideas (backward ideas) Europe was thought to be advanced compared other parts of the world. The idea that modernity would overcome tradition partly tradition based in rural and the dominance of the christian church.
