- The possibility of an urban sociology
- The city as public and private space
- The city in Postmodernism
- The relation of the individual to the crowd in the city
The first person to attempt urban sociology was Georg Simmel (1858- 1918)
Author of Metropolis and Mental Life in 1903
German sociologist, he reflects on the individual.
This is the time when fraud wrote his lectures on psychoanalysis
At this time the growth of the city was exponential, it was new and different.
Get the idea of the vulnerability of the city - people had to learn new things i.e. traffic lights and other such inventions.
Architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
- Organised into 4 zones
- Contains mechanical, utility area, public area, office space, no decorative elements.
Terminating zone.
- Responsible for the redesign of the skyline in Chicago.
Manhatta (1921) Paul Strand and Charles Scheeler (Film)
- City of Manhattan
- Melting pot of immigration, idea that all races are here.
- Proud, passionate city.
- Celebration of transport and build environment.
- Contains a detached view of the city
Ford Motor Company's plant at River Rouge, Detroit (1927)
- Notion of Fordism - repetitive nature of the production mine almost turns the worker into the machine.
The idea that people go to work in this industry but only earn enough to buy the product themselves.
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