Thursday, 16 October 2014

COP Lecture. Cities and Film

George Simmel (1858-1918)
German sociologist 

Urban sociology 
the resistance of the individual to being levelled, swallowed up in the social technological mechanism
- George Simmel The Metropolis and Mental Life. 

Architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
- Creator of modern sky scraper, represents an upwardly city of business opportunity.
Guaranty building

Manahatta (1921) film by Paul Strand and Charles Scheeler 
Text from film is from Walt Whitmans poem leaves of grass
City is space for melting pot of immigration, 'all races are here'.

Fordism: mechanised labour relations
Antonio Gramisci

Stock market crash of 1929

Walter Benjamin
Arcades project (1927-40)
Adopts concept of an urban observer as an analytical tool and as his lifestyle seen in his writings 

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