HIST 1095 Lecture 1: Lecture 1 - History

• School: York University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1095
• Professor: Jennifer Stephen

Document Summary

Cities- what are they and how they affect us! Cities have in nite possibilities - produces variety of meanings! Cities show images of accomplishments of society! Paris & london (starting from 1850s -1990s): period when the city as a space becomes the dominant environment of human life in. Europe: great growth of people living in city - urban life becomes modern life! Opened up huge areas of of ce towers (jobs, wi connection - globalization) ! Organic" city: period when the size of the city changes dramatically ! **london: referred to as city of dreadful delight" (fear and pleasure) ! Aims of course:: critical thinking, difference between fact and interpretation, ex. 17 october 1961: between 38 and 50 algerian french killed by parisian police after clashes between police and pro-algerian demonstrators: how certain is the fact, number of killing and the recognition of the killing!