GEOG 152 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Paris Nanterre University, Berlin Wall, Nikita Khrushchev
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Book: streetlife: the untold history of europe"s twentieth century by leif jerram. 10,000 years ago: humans stopped wandering and settled down in farms, living in large groups of people 19th century formation of european cities! By the end of the 19th century, the west was formed (large european cities in north & east of france, northern italy, all of belgium, etc. ) Population explosion occurred in cities, but not the countryside. City: manchester, england: 1800: population 75,000 people 1900: 2,117,000 people. Countryside: norfolk: 1801: population 273,000 1901: 476,000. The move to cities caused for people to need new rule books instead of religious texts. Before living in cities, people in the countryside turned to the bible, quran, torah for rules on morality, political order, economics, family. The spaces of cities mattered in history. Factories brought people together in new formations. Layout of streets that made them unpoliceable. Europe deindustrialized by the 1970s, and production shifted to the far east (japan,
