SOSC 2730 Study Guide - Dynamite Entertainment, Mixed Economy, Openair
6 May 2014
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The city in history: reading guide commercial expansion and urban dissolution. From the standpoint of the working classes, the period was one of increasing exploitation, and with regard to their quarters, one of increasing dilapidation and constriction. Without the spur of poverty and famine, they could not be expected to work for starvation wages. Misery at the bottom was the foundation for the luxury at the top. (p. 432: the wretched quality of the housing that the urban poor lived in spawned its own set of socio- political problems. This regimentation in time affected every part of the city: but first of all it affected the dwellings of the poor. The ground rents rose and the living quarters worsened. This indifference to the elementary necessities of hygiene or amenity characterized the development of the commercial town, summing up the whole downward movement of building and housing during the nineteenth century, under this one-sided preoccupation with rent and profit.
