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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