SOSC 1731 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Steam Engine, The Industrialist, Divine Providence
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Coninued growth of work and trade, religion, art and play sill very important. Coketown was an industrial city and produced dull boys" all work and no play makes jack a dull boy (446) Machines were heavily used due to its producivity and eiciency, machines replacing" humans labourers. The new industrial city had many lessons to teach; but for the urbanists its chief lesson was in what to avoid. By realizing the misdemeanors of industrialism in the 16th century, the 19th century inally arrived at a beter concepion of human needs and urban possibiliies. Upper classes was visible breaking up: the court was becoming supernumerary. New roles bankers, industrialists, and the mechanical inventors. Every city in the western world was stamped with the archetypal characterisics of coketown. Industrialism, the main creaive force of the 19th century, produced the most degraded urban environment the world had yet seen; for even the quarters of the ruling classes were overcrowded (447)