ENVS 2200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Welfare, Spinning Jenny

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 2200
• Professor: Stefan Kipfer

Document Summary

Baron haussmann = urban designer without commitments to social reform or social altenatives, paris, had substandard housing, poor public health and disenfranchised population. Old neighbouthoods in east = helped revolutions/mobs: haussmann destroyed homes of 15,000 people in heart of city and built wide, straight, boulevards = made difficult to put barricade and easy to move troops (algiers). Altered city by moving center of paris to north west, where rich lived. 1860s new labor aristocracies forms, working class more segmented: political power of organized working class transformed good from private (based on income) to public (based on citizenship) Ex: steel town birmingham, alabama = until 1950s city planning was dominated by racial segregation of african americans in poorly maintain and isolated communities: edge cities suburbs- fast growing and privatized.