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Next class:. city and country: size and location of cities real and imagined experience class differentiated social sciences to ‘map’ reality gendered public spaces homes:separate from work ideally private, but not necessarily the idea of décor contact and contagion. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Next class:• city and country: size and location of cities
real and imagined experienceclass differentiatedsocial sciences to ‘map’ realitygenderedpublic spaces
• homes: separate from workideally private, but not necessarilythe idea of décor
• contact and contagion
Random admixture of bodies, classes, and substancesstreets: study of where and how people live
sorts of dwellings (slums)movement between home and work
Spectatorship: pleasure, commodities, knowledge, filth, transgression, redemption
Movement tension between private and public
Movement of human waste/movement of humans
Social Cartography: Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903).
BLACK: Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal.
DARK BLUE: Very poor, casual. Chronic want.
LIGHT BLUE: Poor. 18s. to 21s. a week for a moderate family
PURPLE: Mixed. Some comfortable others poor
PINK: Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings.
RED: Middle class. Well-to-do.
YELLOW: Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy.
A combination of colours - as dark blue or black, or pink and red - indicates that the street contains a fair proportion of each of the classes represented by the respective colours.In the first volume of the poverty series in the final edition of Life
“One in four people have paranoid thoughts while on the tube”- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Well, no doubt•¼ commuters had bacteria from faeces on their hands•gets worse further north•men worse than women
(except in London)•bus travellers worse than tube riders
Public vehicles and hire1850s-1870s
Led literally to the creation of the first municipal ambulance service
1. class contamination and corrupting influences (what to do?)
2. legibility and spectatorship on urban landscape
London Fever HospitalMiddle classes:
horrified others are taking their sick/dead in cabsandHorrified they can’t find decent cabs for their own family members