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AH110 - Planning The City

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Cities are lively, dense and heterogeneous collections of people. They offer the best of culture, innovation, and knowledge. Communities often form when people live around like-minded people and public spaces offer an opportunity to interact and learn from one another. Cities historically have also spatially highlighted reinforced societal inequality, concentrated human waste, and inspired reform efforts that continue to inform urban visions for the future. [Excerpts from William Flanagan, "From Ancient Cities to an Urban World," Urban Sociology: Images and Structures (New York: Roman & Littlefield, 2010), 33-67.] For most of the inhabitants of nineteenth-century cities, the conditions of life were dominated by the conditions of work. These have become more or less well-known. It is necessary to understand, however, that a workday comprised of long, hard hours was not something new in itself: Artisans and farmers had always worked similarly long hours. What was new was the monotony of

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